Oct 27, 2010 - Sale 2227

Sale 2227 - Lot 15

Unsold
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 strong remnants of the horizontal lines in the sky, burnished away after the second state, still printing, and with pentimenti of the standing woman in the lower left foreground replaced by the pitchfork. From Twelve Etchings from Nature. A brilliant, richly-inked impression. Kennedy 17.