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Railway-Station, Voves

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1924.662)
Number: 387
Date: 1888
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 130 x 220 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right (2)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 6
Catalogues: K.371; M.371
Impressions taken from this plate  (6)

PUBLICATION

Railway Station, Voves was not published.

EXHIBITIONS

It was first exhibited by the print dealers H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898. 9 An impression was lent by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 () 10

Later it was shown in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death: at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904; at the exhibition organised by the Copley Society in Boston in 1904, lent by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (); in Paris and in London in 1905. 11

9: New York 1898 (cat. no. 277).

10: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 310).

11: New York 1904a (cat. no. 356); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 214); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.

SALES & COLLECTORS

At £6.6.0 Whistler sold impressions to H. Wunderlich & Co., print dealers in New York on 14 May 1889, on 20 July to Knoedler & Co. and on 23 July 1889 to Howard Mansfield (1849-1938). 12

The proof bought by Mansfield was inscribed '1st Proof 1st State' by the artist (). W. H. Bustin (fl. 1958wn) bought the '2nd Proof. 1st State' () and Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought the '3rd Proof. / 1st State' from Wunderlich's in 1889 ().

12: GUW #13056, #13660, #13046.

Wunderlich's recorded sales in 1896, 1897, 1899 and 1900 . 13 Other early purchasers probably included Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) () and John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911) ().

13: Wunderlich's to Whistler, September 1897, GUW #07287; 24 March 1899, #07305; 16 April 1900, #07330.