Mar 06, 2008 - Sale 2138

Sale 2138 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 9,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
The Unsafe Tenement.

Etching printed in black on tan chine collé, 1858. 160x228 mm; 6 3/8x9 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Third state (of 4), with the name and address of the printer, Delâtre, lower left, with remnants of the horizontal lines in the sky, burnished away after the second state, still printing, and with pentimenti of the woman in the lower left foreground replaced by the pitchfork. Ex-collection Craddock and Barnard, London. A brilliant, richly-inked impression. Kennedy 17.