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Barges, Dordrecht

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46890)
Number: 262
Date: 1886
Medium: etching
Size: 66 x 99 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 10
Catalogues: K.244; M.241
Impressions taken from this plate  (10)
The copper plate has not been located. It was close in size to another Dordrecht subject, The Little Wheelwright's [261] and also similar to two London subjects dating from about 1886 (The Seamstress [253], The Bonnet-Shop [254]) and several 1887 plates (Church Door, Edgware [291], The Abbey Jubilee [296], Children's Fruit Barrow [347]).
It was probably printed after Whistler's death by Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938). In a draft catalogue of Whistler's etchings, Joseph Pennell (1860-1926) wrote that Menpes owned the plate. 6

According to the Freer Gallery of Art records, their impression of Boats, Dordrecht - which was not cancelled or damaged - originally bore a note by Freer reading 'Erased April 25th, 1924.' (Graphic with a link to impression #K2440103).

6: J. Pennell, n.d., draft catalogue, Library of Congress, Pennell Collection, Box. 353.

The plate was printed posthumously and was cancelled or damaged by corrosion or acid along the bottom edge.