The 'Adam and Eve', Old Chelsea

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JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER (1834-1903)
The 'Adam and Eve', Old Chelsea
etching and drypoint, 1878, on tissue-thin laid paper, a very good impression of Glasgow's third, final state, published by Hogarth & Son, London, 1879, with wide margins, pale mountstaining, otherwise in very good condition, with five other prints by the artist, generally in good condition, each framed
Plate 176 x 301 mm., Sheet 242 x 374 mm.
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Provenance

Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), London (Lugt 406). (C 25)
With Kennedy Galleries, New York, their stocknumber a53694 inscribed in pencil verso. (G 51)

Literature

Etchings: Glasgow 182, 51, 186 & 181; Kennedy 175, 47, 179 & 182
Lithographs: Chicago 40 & 25; Way 38 & 21; Levy 63 & 34

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Lot Essay

Including: Billingsgate (G. 51), etching and drypoint, 1859, on thin laid paper, a very good impression of Glasgow's ninth, final state; Little Putney Bridge (G. 186), etching and drypoint, 1879, on thick wove paper, a good impression of Glasgow's fifth, final state; Chelsea (G. 181), etching and drypoint, 1878-79, on laid paper, a good impression of Glasgow's fifth, final state; The Garden (C. 40), lithograph, 1891, on laid paper watermark O.W.P & A.C.L. (C 219), a good impression of the only state; Drury Lane Rags (C. 25), lithograph, 1888, on buff coloured laid paper, a very good impression of the only state

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