May 11, 2023 - Sale 2636

Sale 2636 - Lot 219

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
The Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris.

Etching and drypoint printed in dark brownish black on antique cream 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. Proprietary watermark. A superb, early impression.

Provenance: Charles William Dowdeswell, London, ink stamp verso (Lugt 690); Henry Studdy Theobald, London, blind stamp lower left recto (Lugt 1376).

Kennedy 23; Glasgow 29.