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The Visitors' Boat | ||
Number: | 303 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 178 x 128 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 9 | |
Catalogues: | K.320; M.313; W.237 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (9) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS


After Whistler's death, impressions were shown in several memorial exhibitions. Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent his impression of The Visitors' Boat to the Whistler exhibition in Boston in 1904 (


11: New York 1898 (cat. no. 223).
12: Chicago 1900 (cat. nos. 207, 207a).
13: New York 1904a (cat. no. 250).
14: Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 390); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 237).
SALES & COLLECTORS

An impression from the 'Naval Review Set' presented by Whistler to Queen Victoria was lent by Edward VII to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in 1905. It was then sold on 11 April 1906 through Obach & Co. to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), who already had a good impression (


A similar set in an album designed by Whistler was given by Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954) to the Art Institute of Chicago (
