Sep 24, 2015 - Sale 2392

Sale 2392 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
The Unsafe Tenement.

Etching printed in black on cream laid Japan paper, 1858. 160x228 mm; 6 3/8x9 inches, full margins. MacDonald's third state (of 4), an early impression in this state 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. Printed by Delâtre, Paris. From Twelve Etchings from Nature. A brilliant, richly-inked impression. Kennedy 17; Glasgow 18.