Swann Galleries - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings

18 JAMES A. M.WHISTLER

Nursemaid and Child

Etching and drypoint printed in black on thin, cream laid Japan paper, 1859. 98x133 mm; 4x5

inches, full margins. MacDonald’s second state (of 2), with the woman’s nose

retroussé

and her

mouth slightly smiling.A brilliant, richly-inked impression of this very scarce, early etching.

MacDonald notes a total of approximately only 35 impressions of this

have found

only 11 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Kennedy 37; Glasgow 42.

[1,500/2,500]

●

JAMES A. M.WHISTLER

The Unsafe Tenement

Etching printed in dark brownish black on cream laid Japan paper, 1858. 160x228 mm; 6

inches, full margins. MacDonald’s third state (of 4), an early impression in this state 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. Printed by Delâtre, Paris. From

Twelve Etchings from Nature

.A brilliant, richly-inked impression. Kennedy 17; Glasgow 18.

[1,500/2,500]