Sep 23, 2014 - Sale 2357

Sale 2357 - Lot 32

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
The Unsafe Tenement.

Etching printed in dark, brownish black on grayish, off-white 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.