Etchings Institutions search term: grolier club
The Mill | ||
Number: | 457 | |
Date: | 1889 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 161 x 241 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 6 | |
Known impressions: | 13 | |
Catalogues: | K.413; M.415 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (13) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS


One was for sale by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898. Whistler himself exhibited one at the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, of which he was President, in 1899. 11 Another was lent by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) to the show organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 (



Finally, impressions appeared at the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death. In 1904, three different states were shown at the Grolier Club in New York and one was lent by Mansfield to the Boston Memorial (

9: London Dunthorne 1890 ; New York 1890a .
10: Chicago 1893 (cat. no. 2267 [1687] ).
11: London ISSPG 1899 (cat. no. 249). See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
12: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 306).
13: Dresden 1901 ; Dresden 1902 ; Philadelphia 1902 (cat. no. 947 [275]),
14: New York 1904a (cat. nos. 292 a,b,c); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 196).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler sold what he described as the '2nd Proof pulled' of the 'First State' to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (

Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) was upset because he felt that Freer was getting preferential treatment, so he complained to Whistler:
20: 15 May 1890, GUW #03989.

21: 21 July [1890], GUW #13048.



22: 31 July 1890, GUW #07191; 19 September 1890, #13059.
23: Wunderlich's to Whistler, GUW #07322; 16 April 1901, #07330.
24: Heijbroek 1997 , p. 71.

Early collectors included Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) (


