JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Whistler with the White Lock.
Etching and drypoint on antique cream laid paper, 1876-79. 119x80 mm; 4 5/8x3 1/8 inches, full margins. MacDonald's first state (of 2), before cancellation. A superb impression of this very scarce etching.
This is the last of three etched self-portraits Whistler created and the only one showing his signature white lock of hair.
Probably an impression issued by H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, in 1889. MacDonald notes that impressions of this subject were actually included in the set of cancelled plates (although it is not cancelled) issued in 1878 and then re-issued a little more than a decade later by Wunderlich. Kennedy 172.
