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Booth, Market Place, Loches

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1917.587)
Number: 425
Date: 1888
Medium: etching
Size: 80 x 148 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.388; M.390
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)

PUBLICATION

It was not published.

EXHIBITIONS

Only two impressions are known and so it was rarely exhibited. One impression was shown by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898 and Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) lent one to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 (Graphic with a link to impression #K3880102). 8

It was also exhibited in Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and the London Memorial Exhibition in 1905. 9

8: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 304). See REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.

9: New York 1904a (cat. no. 377); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 339).

SALES & COLLECTORS

Whistler sold an impression of 'Booth, (Market)' to H. Wunderlich & Co. of New York in 1897 for £7.7.0. 10 It was probably the impression exhibited at Wunderlich's in 1898 and possibly the 'Booth (Market)' recorded as sold by them for £10.10.0 by March 1899. 11

Only two impressions are known, one being owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (Graphic with a link to impression #K3880103) and the other by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) (Graphic with a link to impression #K3880102) who lent it to the Caxton Club in 1900.

Mansfield's impression was later acquired by Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937). For once, Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) did not have an impression, and so when this was sold recently by a descendant of Whittemore, it was bought for the Freer Gallery of Art, in 2002.

10: Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932) to Whistler, 24 September 1897, GUW #07287.

11: Report of sales to date, 24 March 1899, GUW #07305.