?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER The Title Page for 'Douze Eaux Fortes d'après Nature' (Whistler Sketching).
Etching and drypoint on Chine collé, 1858. 113x147 mm; 4 1/2x5 3/4 inches, wide margins. Printed by Delâtre, Paris. A superb, richly-inked, early impression of this scarce etching.
There are only approximately 50 or 56 impressions known according to Kennedy and MacDonald respectively. According to Kennedy, early impressions were all usually printed on Chine collé, a customary practice with the printer Delâtre at this time. Kennedy 25; Glasgow 22.
