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Number: | 37 | |
Date: | 1859 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 161 x 120 mm | |
Signed: | 'J. Whistler' at lower right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 3 | |
Known impressions: | 40 | |
Catalogues: | K.32; M.30; T.24; W.25 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (40) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS

Impressions were shown in a variety of private, international and dealer's exhibitions, including H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898 and 1903, and Obach & Co., London, in 1903. Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought his third state of this etching from Wunderlich's show in 1898 (




It was also shown in the principal Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, including the Grolier Club in New York in 1904. Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent an impression to the Copley Society exhibition in Boston, also in 1904 (



17: Liverpool 1874 (cat. nos. 516, 516a).
18: New York 1881 (cat. nos. 37-38).
19: New York 1898 (cat. no.24).
20: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 25). See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
21: New York 1904a (cat. no. 27); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 19); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 25).
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22: B.M. Register of Purchases ... 1872.






23: Sotheby's, 30 April 1876 (lots 749, 750).







