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JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Title Page for 'Douze Eaux Fortes d'après Nature' (Whistler Sketching).
Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper, 1858. 113x147 mm; 4 1/2x5 3/4 inches, wide margins. Ex-collection William Merritt Chase, New York. Printed by Delâtre, Paris. A brilliant impression of this scarce, early etching, with warm plate tone.
There are only approximately 50 or 56 impressions known according to Kennedy and MacDonald respectively.
With a copy of a letter from William Merritt Chase to J.C. Easton, dated August 28, 1885, the same year that Chase completed two oil portraits of Mr. Easton and of his wife. Kennedy 25; Glasgow 22.
