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Sketching, No. 2

Impression: Private collection
Private collection
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Number: 84
Date: 1861
Medium: etching
Size: 118 x 164 mm
Signed: 'Whistler' at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 1
Catalogues: K.87; M.85
Impressions taken from this plate  (1)

PUBLICATION

It was not published. It is possible it was intended as an illustration for J.H. Reynolds's 'The Angler's Soliloquy', Passages from Modern English Poets, London, [1862] but rejected in favour of The Punt [82].

EXHIBITIONS

It was exhibited in two exhibitions in New York: one at the print firm of H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1903, and secondly at the Grolier Club in 1904. 5

5: New York 1903 (cat. no. 237); New York 1904a (cat. no. 72).

SALES & COLLECTORS

The sole known impression was owned first by Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), and later sold by H. Wunderlich & Co. to Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (Graphic with a link to impression #K0870102).