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Melon Shop, Houndsditch | ||
Number: | 355 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 128 x 178 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 5 | |
Known impressions: | 10 | |
Catalogues: | K.293; M.288 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (10) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
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Impressions of Melon Shop, Houndsditch also appeared in the Memorial shows after Whistler's death. One was shown in the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent impressions of the first and second state to the Boston Memorial Exhibition in 1904 (
![Graphic with a link to impression #K2930101](../../images/etchlink.gif)
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12: New York 1898 (cat. no. 192); Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 305); see REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
13: Boston 1904 (cat. nos. 199, 200); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 281).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought an impression of the second state from Wunderlich's in 1892 (
![Graphic with a link to impression #K2930202](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K2930101](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K2930205](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K2930302](../../images/etchlink.gif)