Etchings Institutions search term: grolier club
Justice Walk, Chelsea | ||
Number: | 441 | |
Date: | 1888 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 166 x 242 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 2 | |
Known impressions: | 4 | |
Catalogues: | K.275; M.270 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (4) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
Impressions were also shown in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death. Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) lent one to the Boston show in 1904 (), and Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932) to the London Memorial Exhibition of 1905. 10
8: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 300); see REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
9: Philadelphia 1902 (cat. no. 947 (271)).
10: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 206); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 296).
SALES & COLLECTORS
H. Wunderlich & Co. of New York bought one marked 'Chosen Proof' on 16 April 1889 for £10.10.10 (less 20 percent discount). 12 It was probably sold immediately on 27 May 1889 to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (). The firm also reported one sold years later at a price of £12.12.0. 13 This may have been the impression owned at some time by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935), which bears Wunderlich's stock number a 39030 () or by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) who owned one by 1900 ().
On 18 July 1889 Whistler recorded that he had only one impression in stock, and he sold this, his last impression, to Roland F. Knoedler (1856-1932) two days later. 15