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Sat, Nov 17, 2018 09:00AM EST
Lot 1535

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

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$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

(Massachusetts/England, 1834-1903)

Thames Police, 1859, state III/III (K. 44), signed in plate "Whistler 1859" and titled in margin "Thames Police", etching on laid paper, 5-7/8 x 8-7/8 in. (plate) 7-3/4  x 10-1/4 in. (sheet); gilt wood frame, 13-1/2 x 17-1/2 in.  

Note:

Literature: Kennedy, Edward G. [The Etched Work of Whistler]. San Francisco: Alan Wolfsy, 1978, no. 44, ill.

Condition

a richly inked impression, hinged in, toning at edges, pencil inscriptions in margins, small losses at edges of paper, remnants of hinging tissue verso; frame with abrasions