Sale 2532 - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, March 5, 2020

27  JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Long Venice . Etching and drypoint printed in dark brownish black on antique cream laid paper, 1879-80. 128x309 mm; 5x12 1 / 8 inches. MacDonald’s eighth state (of 8). Edition of approximately 30. Signed with the butterf ly and inscribed “imp” in pencil on the tab, lower left. From Twenty-Six Etchings . A superb, richly-inked, dark impression of this very scarce etching. According to MacDonald, Whistler sold the plate for this etching after he had completed the sixth state, and it was thereafter printed from by Émile Frédéric Salmon. The total edition of approximately 30 includes impressions taken by both Whistler and Salmon.