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Pickle Herring Wharf | ||
Number: | 164 | |
Date: | 1876/1877 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 152 x 229 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
No. of States: | 8 | |
Known impressions: | 30 | |
Catalogues: | K.167; M.163; W.137 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (30) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS



Impressions were shown in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, at the Grolier Club in New York, for instance, in 1904, and in the Copley Society show in Boston that same year. An impression was also shown at the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905, lent from the Royal Collection (

14: New York 1881 (cat. no. 147). See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
15: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 121).
16: New York 1898 (cat. no. 116); New York 1903b (cat. no. 101).
17: New York 1904a (cat. no. 139); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 104); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 137).
SALES & COLLECTORS

Whistler targetted art dealers, and actually gave a fine atmospheric impression to the Glasgow art dealer William Craibe Angus (1830-1899) (

Two impressions from the collection of the late Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) sold at auction in 1892, one, a 'trial proof, before much work in the sky and water' went to Edmund F. Deprez (1851-1915) for £6.6.0, and the second, to Frederick Keppel (1845-1912) for £1.15.0. 21
One etching was returned to Whistler for signing in the 1890s, and acquired by Freer (















22: Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1889 (lot 787 or 789).