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

164 c JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Black Lion Wharf. Etching on antique cream laid paper, 1859. 150x225 mm; 5 7 / 8 x8 7 / 8 inches, wide margins. MacDonald’s fourth state (of 4). A brilliant, richly-inked impression with very strong contrasts. Kennedy 42; Glasgow 54. [1,500/2,500] 165  JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Old Hungerford Bridge . Etching on cream wove paper, 1861. 139x208 mm; 5 1 / 2 x8 1 / 4 inches, full margins. MacDonald’s second state (of 4). Signed with the butterfly in pencil, lower right. A brilliant, early, richly-inked and proof-like impression with very strong contrasts and warm plate tone. With— Billingsgate , etching printed in black on cream wove paper, 1859. 152x226 mm; 6x8 7 / 8 inches, full margins. MacDonald’s ninth state (of 9), before cancellation. Kennedy 76 and 47; Glasgow 76 and 51. [3,000/5,000] 164 165