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Landscape with Horses | ||
| 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
EXHIBITIONS
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), 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 (
). 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 (
). 16
15: New York 1881 (cat. nos. 66-67); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
16: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 44).
17: New York 1904a (cat. no. 48B); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 46)
SALES & COLLECTORS
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). Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) acquired impressions of both states, possibly in the 1870s (
and
). Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought a first state in 1890 from Wunderlich's in New York (
) and another, originally from the collection of Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910), in 1898 (
). 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 (
).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'.
