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Traghetto | ||
Number: | 231 | |
Date: | 1879/1880 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 240 x 311 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at lower left (1-2); replaced with new butterfly (3-final) | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 4 | |
Known impressions: | 7 | |
Catalogues: | K.190; M.187 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (7) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
12: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 137).
13: Glasgow 1901 (cat. no. 242); New York 1903 (cat. no. 71); New York 1904a (cat. no. 157).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler had also written directly to Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932) on 4 July 1892, selling another impression that he claimed to be the 'first proof': 'I have found ... the first proof of the Traghetto - pulled on old wooden Press in Venice, as you will see marked on back - consequently a tit bit for one of your collectors - ' 16 For this he received £12.12.0. 17 This was probably the impression bought by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), on which Mansfield wrote: 'Perhaps only impression of first state. The plate was destroyed and a new etching made of the subject. H.M.' ().