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Landscape with Horses

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(54871)
Number: 45
Date: 1859
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 128 x 205 mm
Signed: 'Whistler.' at lower left
Inscribed: '1859.' at lower left
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 32
Catalogues: K.36; M.35; T.23; W.46
Impressions taken from this plate  (32)

PUBLICATION

It was not published.

EXHIBITIONS

The two states being markedly different, on several occasions examples of the first and second states were shown together, lent by Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) to the Union League Club in New York in 1881, for instance (Graphic with a link to impression #K0360108, Graphic with a link to impression #K0360220), and on sale in print dealer's shows, at H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898, and at Obach & Co. in London in 1903. 15 Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought one state from the Wunderlich show in 1898 (Graphic with a link to impression #K0360103). In other exhibitions, only the second state was shown. Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916), for instance, lent one to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club show in Chicago in 1900 (Graphic with a link to impression #K0360203). 16

15: New York 1881 (cat. nos. 66-67); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.

16: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 44).

Impressions were also shown in exhibitions after Whistler's death, at the Grolier Club in 1904 and in London - lent from the Royal Collection - in 1905. 17

17: New York 1904a (cat. no. 48B); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 46)

SALES & COLLECTORS

The British Museum bought impressions of the first and second states from Ralph Thomas, Jr (1840-1876) in 1872 (Graphic with a link to impression #K0360104, Graphic with a link to impression #K0360207). Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) acquired impressions of both states, possibly in the 1870s (Graphic with a link to impression #K0360108 and Graphic with a link to impression #K0360220). Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought a first state in 1890 from Wunderlich's in New York (Graphic with a link to impression #K0360102) and another, originally from the collection of Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910), in 1898 (Graphic with a link to impression #K0360103). William Loring Andrews (1837-1927) gave an impression of the second state on good quality Japanese paper to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1883 (Graphic with a link to impression #K0360221).

At auction, prices were low, at under £2.0.0 a time. At the 1887 sale of prints owned by John W. Wilson (dates unknown), 'Landscape with Horses' described as an 'early impression of the second state' was bought by Gustave Lauser (b. ca 1841) for £1.5.0. 18 At two later sales - the collections of George William Reid (1819-1887) in 1890, and the late Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) in 1892 - it fetched only £1.2.0. 19 Again, at the sale of Richard Beavis's collection in 1897, another impression was sold with Reading by Lamplight for only £2.12.0. 20

18: Sotheby's, 22 April 1887 (lot 194).

19: Sotheby's, 28 February 1890 (lot 481) bought by 'Fawcett'; 3 March 1892 (lot 97) bought by Edmund F. Deprez (1851-1915).

20: Christie's, 17-20 and 22 February 1897 (lot 55) bought by 'Philpot'.