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Longshore men |  Freer Gallery of Art (1890.5) | |
| 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
). Whistler included another in his own one-man exhibition in the same year. 20 An impression was shown to connoisseurs at the Union League Club in New York in 1881, lent by Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) (). 21
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 (
). 23 At the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900, one impression was lent by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) () and another, described as a 'Very early proof', originally from the collections of J.A. Rose and William Drake (1817-1890), was lent by Freer (). 24 Freer's rival collector, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), lent his impression to the annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1902 (). 25
After Whistler's death, it was shown in several Memorial Exhibitions including the Copley Society show in Boston in 1904, lent by Mansfield (
) and the 1905 London show, lent by King Edward VII (). 26 The latter was then sold in the following year through Wunderlich's to Clarence Buckingham (1855-1913) ().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
). 27 Ten years later, in 1882, a huge group of prints by various artists was sold by Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840- d.1892) to the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, including an impression of 'Matrosenkneipe' (). These were the earliest public collections to acquire impressions.27: B.M. Print Room Register of Purchases ..., 1872.
); George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909) (), Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924) () and Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) (). Later, they were joined by major American collectors such as George Washington Vanderbilt (1862-1914) (), Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) () and Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919). Wunderlich's of New York sold two impressions to Freer, one from the collections of James Anderson Rose (1819-1890) and William Drake (1817-1890), in 1890 () and another, originally from the collection of Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910), in 1898 ().28: Sotheby's, 28 February 1890 (lot 480), and 3 March 1892 (lot 93).
). Similarly, David Keppel gave an impression to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1917. It seems likely that Keppel owned the copper plate and had additional impressions printed.29: Christie's, 8 March 1892 (lot 316) £3.5.0.