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The Venetian Mast | ||
Number: | 219 | |
Date: | 1879/1880 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 344 x 166 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at left (6-final) | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | 'First Venice Set', 1880 | |
No. of States: | 12 | |
Known impressions: | 57 | |
Catalogues: | K.195; M.192; W.160 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (57) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
'The Mast and the Little Mast are dependent for much of their interest, on the drawing of festoons of cord hanging from unequal heights.' Whistler quoted this excerpt in the catalogue for a second Venice etching exhibition in 1883, adding the marginal 'Reflection' : 'At the service of critics of unequal sizes.' 18
15: London FAS 1880 .
16: 'Mr. Whistler's etchings ...', British Architect, 10 December 1880 (GUL PC 4/19).
17: Anon., unidentified press-cutting, [December 1880], GUL PC 4/15.
18: London FAS 1883 (cat. no. 36).


It appeared in print dealer's shows, at Dunthorne's in London in 1890, at H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898 (possibly


It was not shown at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 because, as Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) explained, 'there were no frames of the right size for "Finette" or "The Mast", or "Cameo No. 1"'. 21 However, an impression was lent by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) to the show organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 (

Other impressions were shown at the Whistler Memorial Exhibitions in Boston in 1904, lent by Howard Mansfield; at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904; in Paris and London in 1905, and, lent by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), Rotterdam in 1906 (

19: New York 1881 (cat. nos. 156-167)
20: New York 1898 (cat. no. 139). See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
21: 15 May 1893, GUW #00402.
22: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 141).
23: Glasgow 1901 (cat. no. 220); Edinburgh 1904 (cat. no. 555)
24: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 128); New York 1904a (cat. no. 162b); Rotterdam 1906 (cat. no. 37).
SALES & COLLECTORS



British collectors included Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) (


25: Inventory books, Kupferstichkabinett Berlin.
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought impressions from H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1898 (









