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JAMES A. M. WHISTLER The Palaces.
Etching on antique cream laid paper, 1879-80. 253x355 mm; 10x14 inches, full margins. First state (of 3), or a hitherto unknown proof before the first state (of 3), before the figures in the cntral doorway and the man at left with the large hat, with craquelure on the palace façade above and to the left of the central door, with tone on the palace façade at right and with pentimenti of another gondola with 2 figures in the right foreground. Arms of Amsterdam watermark. Ex-collection Mortimer Menpes, according to a partially erased inscription in pencil, verso. From Twelve Etchings. A superb impression of this extremely scarce, early proof. Kennedy 187.
