The Kitchen | ||
Number: | 16 | |
Date: | 1858 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 227 x 157 mm | |
Signed: | 'Whistler' at lower right | |
Inscribed: | 'Imp. Delatre. Rue St. Jacques. 171.' at lower right (2); partly removed (3) | |
Set/Publication: | 'French Set', 1858; Fine Art Society, 1885 (3) | |
No. of States: | 3 | |
Known impressions: | 67 | |
Catalogues: | K.24; M.24; T.13; W.19 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (67) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
15: Hague 1863. See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
16: 'Mr Whistler's Etchings', The Builder, 5 July 1874 (in GUL PC1/73).
17: London Pall Mall 1874 (cat. no. 26).
18: Liverpool 1874 (cat. no. 513).
In New York, it was shown in print dealer's shows, by H. Wunderlich & Co. (1889, 1898, 1903) and F. Keppel & Co. (1902). Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought impressions of the second () and third state () from Wunderlich's show in 1898. 23
Finally, it was exhibited in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, by the Copley Society in Boston and at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and in Paris and London in 1905, being lent by King Edward VII to the London show (). 24
19: New York 1881 (cat. no. 30).
20: Glasgow 1888 (cat. no. 2552-7); Glasgow 1901 (cat. no. 240).
21: Mansfield to Whistler, 20 November 1891, GUW #03995.
22: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 19).
23: New York 1898 (cat. no. 18).
24: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 14); New York 1904a (cat. nos. 20); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 19); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 300).
SALES & COLLECTORS
25: V&A, Register for Prints, p. 33.
In April 1876 the collection of Philippe Burty (1830-1890) was exhibited by Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840- d.1892) in the print-shop of Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832) in Haymarket, London, prior to its auction. Wedmore's review specifically mentions this etching:
26: 'Mr Whistler's Paintings', Baltimore Gazette, after 1 April 1876, in GUL PC1/75; quoting E.D. Wallace, 'The Fine Arts Abroad', Forney's Weekly Press, Philadelphia, 1 April 1876.
28: Sotheby's, 22 April 1887 (lot 177); Sotheby’s, 3 March 1892 (lots 63-5); Christie’s, 8-9 March 1892 (lots 326-7).
29: Kennedy to Whistler, 6 July 1892, GUW #07196; 12 April 1893, #07214.