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Longshore men | ||
Number: | 52 | |
Date: | 1859 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 153 x 225 mm | |
Signed: | 'Whistler - ' at lower right | |
Inscribed: | '1859 -' at lower right | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 4 | |
Known impressions: | 37 | |
Catalogues: | K.45; M.44; T.45; W.43 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (37) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
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It was exhibited in prestigious international exhibitions in Chicago (the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893) and Leipzig (1895). 22 It was for sale in print dealers' shows, particularly those of H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York (1898 and 1903) and Obach & Co. in London in 1903. Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought an impression from Wunderlich's in 1898 (
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After Whistler's death, it was shown in several Memorial Exhibitions including the Copley Society show in Boston in 1904, lent by Mansfield (
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20: Liverpool 1874 (cat. no. 488); London Pall Mall 1874 (cat. no. 43).
21: New York 1881 (cat. no. 63).
22: See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
23: New York 1898 (cat. no. 40); New York 1903b (cat. no. 37); London Obach 1903 (cat. no. 51).
24: Chicago 1900 (cat. nos. 41, 41a).
25: Philadelphia 1902 . See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
26: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 37); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 43).
SALES & COLLECTORS
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27: B.M. Print Room Register of Purchases ..., 1872.
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28: Sotheby's, 28 February 1890 (lot 480), and 3 March 1892 (lot 93).
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29: Christie's, 8 March 1892 (lot 316) £3.5.0.