Troopships | ||
Number: | 307 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 128 x 178 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 2 | |
Known impressions: | 13 | |
Catalogues: | K.319; M.314; W.238 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (13) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
Full 'Naval Review Sets' were lent to the major Memorial Exhibitions held after Whistler's death, including a comprehensive show at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and major retrospectives held by the Copley Society in Boston in 1904 and others held in London (lent by King Edward VII) and Paris in 1905. 13
11: New York 1898 (cat. no. 224).
12: Chicago 1900 (cat. nos. 208, 208a).
13: New York 1904a (cat. no. 251); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 173); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 238); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 391).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler had a circle of avid collectors who bought his work, and fine impressions passed from one to another of these collectors as time went on. One impression, for instance, from a set owned by Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924) of Glasgow, went on to be owned by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935), Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932) and Albert Henry Wiggin (1868-1951), from whom it passed to Boston Public Library ().
14: GUW #13089; [September 1887/1888], #08679; 16 December 1887, #10959.
The London print dealer Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) included Troopships priced at £10.10.0 in a last minute Christmas order on 24 December 1902, and bought another on 17 June 1903 shortly before Whistler's death. 17
15: 3 May 1888, GUW #07158, #13051; 27 July 1888, #13660.
16: 26 June 1899, GUW #07179; 6 April 1900, #07322; D. A. Kennedy to Whistler, 27 March 1903, #07340.
17: Whistler to Dunthorne, [20 April 1903], GUW #13041; #13042.
A similar set in an album designed by Whistler was given by Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954) to the Art Institute of Chicago ().
18: London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 238); sale records, 11 April, 3 May and 20 June 1906, FGA; see also Freer's account, [4 September 1902], GUW #11701.