Chelsea Wharf | ||
Number: | 97 | |
Date: | 1863 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 93 x 192 mm | |
Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower right (1-2); butterfly at lower right (2) | |
Inscribed: | '1863 -' at lower right | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 2 | |
Known impressions: | 12 | |
Catalogues: | K.89; M.89; T.75; W.81 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (12) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
Thereafter it was not much exhibited, though impressions appeared at H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898 (bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919)), and at Obach & Co. in London in 1903. An impression was lent by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) to a show organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900. 11
Impressions were also shown in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death. Freer lent an impression () to the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and another, lent from the Royal Collection, was shown at the London Exhibition of 1905. 12
8: London Pall Mall 1874 (cat. no. 3).
9: Liverpool 1874 (cat. no. 500).
10: New York 1881 (cat. no. 110).
11: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 76); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
12: New York 1904a (cat. no. 84); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 81).
SALES & COLLECTORS
The artist also sold impressions to Charles Augustus Howell (1840?-1890) and to J. Hogarth & Sons in 1877 for £4.4.0. 15 By 1886, when he sold one to the London print dealer, Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832), and in 1887 and 1889, to Messrs Dowdeswell, the price had gone up to £6.6.0. 16
At auctions it seems to have fetched much less - in 1892, for instance, another London print dealer Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) bought one for £3.12.6 and Deprez & Gutekunst bought another for even less, £2.8.0. 17
14: Whistler to Alexander, [March/April 1875], GUW #07573; ditto, (22 October [1877], #12737; Report of Gere, Keeper of the Print Room, 17 August 1973, B. M., Trustees' Reports.
15: Whistler to Howell, 12 October-5 November 1877, GUW #12735; to Hogarth, 22-7 October [1877], #12737.
16: Whistler to T. McLean, [1 November 1886], GUW #13010; to Dowdeswell, 28 April 1887, #13020; 3 August 1889, #13092.
17: Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 130); Christie's, 8 March 1892 (lot 309).