JAMES A. M. WHISTLER The Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris.
Etching and drypoint printed in dark brownish black on antique ivory laid paper, 1858. 153x90 mm; 6 1/8x3 5/8 inches, full margins. MacDonald's fourth state (of 5), before the addition of the figures. The Forge (??) watermark. Ex-collection Charles William Dowdeswell (Lugt 690, verso); unknown collector, with the blind stamp lower left (not in Lugt). A superb, early impression. Kennedy 23; Glasgow 29.
