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The Long House (The Dyers, Amsterdam) | ||
Number: | 453 | |
Date: | 1889 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 166 x 271 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly to upper left of centre | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 6 | |
Known impressions: | 14 | |
Catalogues: | K.406; M.408; W.266 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (14) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS

Impressions were shown at international exhibitions, in Dresden in 1901 and 1902 (

After Whistler's death, impressions were shown in the comprehensive Memorial Exhibitions. One impression was shown at the Grolier Club in 1904; Mansfield lent his impression to the Copley Society show in Boston in the same year; and King Edward VII lent to the London Memorial of 1905 (

15: London Dunthorne 1890 .
16: New York 1890a , Chicago 1893 (cat. no. 2266 [1685]); Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 232).
17: See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
18: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 193); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 266).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler sold impressions on 4 March 1890 to two major rival collectors, to Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) for £12.12.0 (



19: GUW #13039; London Dunthorne 1890 .
20: GUW #13047, #13065; Merrill 1995 , p. 67 (Letter 2), GUW #01501.




21: Sotheby’s, 3 March 1892 (lot 344).

24: GUW #13044.

The next sale recorded by Whistler was on 19 May 1897 to Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), still at the old price of £12.12.0. 26 Finally in 1901 Whistler sold eight etchings (including


Early collectors included John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) and Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) (






