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Lot 74
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James McNeill Whistler

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Description

  • James McNeill Whistler
  • fifty-seven defaced etchings and drypoints: 54 plates
  • overall 395 by 250 mm 15 1/2 by 9 7/8 in
Fifty-four etchings and drypoints, from various dates, impressions from the cancelled plates, from the set of 57 published by The Fine Art Society, Ltd., London, 1879, on laid paper, with margins, loose, with short tears and paper losses along the sheet edges, pale time stain, surface soiling and other minor defects, contained in the original boards; sold as a collection of plates not subject to return (54 prints)

Catalogue Note

Most of the prints in this portfolio were etchings printed in exceptionally small editions or were never completed by the artist before being cancelled, and thus not included in Edward Kennedy's catalogue raisonné.