Oct 26, 2011 - Sale 2258

Sale 2258 - Lot 242

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
The Unsafe Tenement.

Etching printed in black on Chine collé, 1858. 160x228 mm; 6 3/8x9 inches, full margins. Fourth state (of 4), with pentimenti of of the standing woman replaced by the pitchfork leaning against the wall at left and with remnants of the the burnished-out sky still printing. From Twelve Etchings from Nature. A brilliant, richly-inked, early impression, with crisp plate edges. Kennedy 17.