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JAMES A. M.WHISTLER
La Vieille aux Loques
.
Etching and drypoint printed in black on cream laid paper, 1858. 208x147 mm; 8
1
/
8
x5
7
/
8
inches, wide margins. MacDonald’s fourth state (of 4). Printed by Delâtre, Paris. From
Twelve
Etchings from Nature
. A very good, richly-inked impression. Kennedy 21; Glasgow 41.
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322 JAMES A. M.WHISTLER
The Unsafe Tenement
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Etching printed in black on light grayish cream
Chine collé
, 1858. 160x228 mm; 6
3
/
8
x9
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
burnished-out sky still printing. From
Twelve Etchings from Nature
.A brilliant, richly-inked,
early impression with crisp plate edges. Kennedy 17; Glasgow 18.
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