Little Dordrecht | ||
Number: | 260 | |
Date: | 1886 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 95 x 132 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 12 | |
Catalogues: | K.243; M.240 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (12) |
PUBLICATION
It was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
No exhibitions are known in Whistler's lifetime. However, it was exhibited by H. Wunderlich & Co., New York in 1903, and at the Grolier Club, also in New York, in 1904. 7
7: New York 1903b (cat. no. 241); New York 1904a (cat. no. 295).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler first sold two Dordrecht etchings ('Little Dordrecht' at £3.3.0 and 'Barges Dordrecht' (Barges, Dordrecht 262) at £2.2.0, to Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832), in 1886. 8
8: Whistler to McLean, [1 November 1886], GUW #13010.
Early collectors included Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937) and Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) (); Harry Brisbane Dick (1855-1916) (); Clarence Buckingham (1855-1913) (); and Franco's Gerard Waller (b. 1867) (). Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought two, one from Wunderlich's in 1903 () and another from Obach & Co. in 1904 ().