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Penny Passengers, Limehouse | ||
Number: | 71 | |
Date: | 1860 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 81 x 206 mm | |
Signed: | no | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 2 | |
Known impressions: | 5 | |
Catalogues: | K.67; M.67; W.59 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (5) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
18: New York 1881 (cat. no. 82); Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 54).
Finally, after Whistler's death, an impression was shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and another one was lent by Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) to the Whistler Memorial show in London in 1905. 20
19: See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
20: New York 1904a (cat. no. 60); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 59).
SALES & COLLECTORS
It is possible but not absolutely certain that this was the same etching recorded as sold to Charles Augustus Howell (1840?-1890), in 1877, as 'Penny Passengers', also at £4.4.0 - the trouble being that one 'From Limehouse' was recorded as bought by Howell for £2.2.0 in the same year and another by that title at £4.4.0. 22
The few surviving impressions gravitated to the major collections of Whistler's work. An impression owned by Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910) was bought, through the mediation of Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1898 (). An impression from the important collection of Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) has not been located (). Another, from the collection of Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), went eventually to Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) who gave it to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC ().