Nov 03, 2016 - Sale 2429

Sale 2429 - Lot 322

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
The Unsafe Tenement.

Etching printed in black on light grayish cream Chine collé, 1858. 160x228 mm; 6 3/8x9 inches, full margins. MacDonald's fourth state (of 4), with pentimenti 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; Glasgow 18.