拍品 77
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JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER | Rotherhithe (Kennedy 66; Glasgow 70)

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5,000 - 8,000 GBP
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描述

  • James McNeill Whistler
  • Rotherhithe (Kennedy 66; Glasgow 70)
  • signed with the butterfly and inscribed imp in pencil (lower right)
  • etching with drypoint, a fine impression of Kennedy's first state (of three), Glasgow's second state (of six), on greyish laid paper
  • plate: 27 by 19.9cm.; 10 5/8 by 7 3/4 in.; sheet: 45.5 by 31.6cm.; 17 7/8 by 12 3/8 in.
  • Executed in 1860, Glasgow cites 118 impressions of this subject.

來源

Ex coll. Edward G. Kennedy, scholar and author of the catalogue raisonné The Etched Work of Whistler (L. 857)

Condition

With wide margins, in good condition, some surface soiling in the margins mostly towards sheet edges, a pin hole in the left margin, some minute fox marks in the margins and verso, two horizontal creases in the lower margin, slight rubbing verso, framed. (Pencil inscriptions in the lower margin and verso).
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