Sale 2507, Part I - Old Master Through Modern Prints, May 2, 2019

161 c FRANCIS SEYMOUR HADEN (after J. M. W. Turner) Calais Pier . Etching and drypoint printed in dark brownish black, 1874. 597x838 mm; 23 1 / 2 x33 inches, wide margins. Fifth state (of 12), with the etched inscription “Etched by F. Seymour Haden after the picture by J. M. W. Turner,” lower left. Signed in pencil, lower right. A superb, well-inked impression of this scarce etching. Haden’s (1818-1910) largest and most technically complex etching. The artist had a new intaglio printing press specially made to accommodate the scale of this oversize etching plate. This etching is based on JosephM. W. Turner’s same-titled oil first exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, 1803, and now at the National Gallery, London. Turner had experienced this scene of the turbulent sea firsthand in 1802 during a trip abroad via Calais. Schneiderman 141. [2,000/3,000] 162 c JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Two prints. The Unsafe Tenement , etching printed in dark brownish black on grayish, off-white 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 * Street at Saverne , etching and open-bite printed in dark brownish black on light tan Chine collé on warm, cream Japan paper, 1858. 208x158 mm; 8 1 / 8 x6 1 / 4 inches, full margins. MacDonald’s fourth state (of 4). Printed by Delâtre, Paris. Both from Twelve Etchings from Nature . Both very good, well-inked impressions. Kennedy 17 and 19; Glasgow 18 and 14. [2,000/3,000] 161