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Stables |  Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la photographie (Rés EC 123 Folio 3) | |
| Number: | 228 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 167 x 236 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.225; M.222; W.198 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). In the catalogue designed by Whistler for the show he added short excerpts from earlier reviews that provided ironical contrasts or complements to the prints on show. For Stables he selected a short and unattributed comment: '"An unpleasing thing, and framed in Mr. Whistler's odd fashion."—City Press.'
11 Whistler's 'odd fashion' was a severe, elegant narrow white frame with incised or painted dark brown parallel lines, and a pale oatmeal mount. 12
11: London FAS 1883 (cat. no. 35).
12: A later etching, Clothes-Exchange, Houndsditch. No. 1 [358], in Whistler's frame is in the Hunterian, GLAHA 46521.
) and perhaps to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in Boston in 1904. 13
In New York impressions were shown by H. Wunderlich & Co., in 1903, and at the Grolier Club in 1904. F. Keppel & Co. of New York lent an impression to the Whistler Memorial in London in 1905. 14
13: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 176); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
14: New York 1903b (cat. no. 158); New York 1904a (cat. no. 200); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 198).
SALES & COLLECTORS
In America, both H. Wunderlich & Co. and F. Keppel & Co. of New York had examples of this rare etching, but it is not known where they got them or to whom they were sold. American collectors certainly acquired impressions, including Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), who owned one by 1900 (
); Louisine Waldron Havemeyer (1855-1929) (); Atherton Curtis (1863-1944) () and Thomas Jefferson Coolidge jr (1863-1912) ().