UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Etchings         Institutions search term: grolier club

After the Sale, Clothes Exchange, Houndsditch

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46907)
Number: 357
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 127 x 177 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 5
Catalogues: K.294; M.289
Impressions taken from this plate  (5)

PUBLICATION

After the Sale, Clothes Exchange, Houndsditch was not published. However, it forms one of Whistler's unpublished but clearly defined 'Houndsditch Set'.

EXHIBITIONS

It was very rare and rarely exhibited. It was first exhibited with the print dealer, H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898 and later an impression appeared in the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900, lent by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) (Graphic with a link to impression #K2940104). 9

It also appeared in Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, in the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and in the London Memorial show in 1905. 10

9: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 278); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.

10: New York 1904a (cat. no. 303); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 282).

SALES & COLLECTORS

Whistler sold an impression on 29 June 1888 to H. Wunderlich & Co. of New York for £8.8.0, and he apparently sold them another in 1899 for £7.7.0. 11 One of these went to Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) (Graphic with a link to impression #K2940104). Other collectors included Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937) (Graphic with a link to impression #K2940106) and later, Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) (Graphic with a link to impression #K2940105).

Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) inherited several impressions from Whistler, one of which she sold to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1904 (Graphic with a link to impression #K2940102) and one she bequeathed to the University of Glasgow (Graphic with a link to impression #K2940103).

11: Whistler to Wunderlich's, GUW #13052; Wunderlich's to Whistler, 24 March 1899, #07305.