James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
Reading by Lamplight
Etching and drypoint, circa 1860, an excellent impression of MacDonald's final state (of three), on cream wove paper without watermark, platemark 160 x 120 mm (6 1/4 x 4 3/4 in), sheet 220 x 160 mm (8 5/8 x 6 1/4 in), exposure lines and toning to sheet margins, faint creases to upper right quadrant and upper left, other minor handling creases and surface dirt, small loss to extremity of lower edge but well outside the image (unframed)

Literature:
Kennedy 32 ii/ii; MacDonald 37 iii/iii

⁂ Intimate portrait of the artist's half-sister, Deborah Delano Haden, née Whistler, the wife of the artist Francis Seymour Haden.