Mar 14, 2024 - Sale 2662

Sale 2662 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
The Unsafe Tenement.

Etching printed in dark brownish black on Japan paper, 1858. 160x228 mm; 6¼x9 inches, full margins. MacDonald's fourth state (of 4), with the pentimenti of the standing woman replaced by the pitchfork leaning against the wall at left and with remnants of the burnished-out sky still printing. From Douze eaux-fortes d'après Nature. A brilliant, richly-inked impression with all the details distinct. Kennedy 17; Glasgow 18.