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T. A. Nash's Greengrocer's Shop | ||
Number: | 298 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 178 x 126 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 5 | |
Known impressions: | 10 | |
Catalogues: | K.263; M.260; W.215 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (10) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
Impressions were included in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, including the Grolier Club in New York in 1904. Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) lent an impression to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905 and Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) lent one to the Rotterdam exhibition of 1906 (). 14
11: Paris Exp. Univ. 1889 (cat. no. 419).
12: See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
13: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 185).
14: London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 215); Rotterdam 1906 (cat. no. 58).
SALES & COLLECTORS
In the following year Whistler sent an impression to H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York to be forwarded to Ross Revillon Winans (1850-1912), for £6.6.0. Another, at the same price, went to Knoedler & Co. for £6.6.0. 16
However, a year later, in 1889, he was selling impressions at £10.10.0 each to John Postle Heseltine (1843-1929), Samuel Joshua (1833 or 1834 - d. 1907) and Durand-Ruel, although it is not entirely clear if all these were sold or just offered. 17
The prices received by Whistler were usually higher than those at auction. For instance at the sale of the collection of the late Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) at Sotheby’s, 3 March 1892 (lot 318) 'Nash's Fruit Shop' was bought by the London print dealer Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) for only £2.15.0. However, when he bought an impression directly from Whistler, shortly before the artist's death in 1903, he paid £12.12.0. 20