Riva, No. 2 | ||
Number: | 230 | |
Date: | 1879/1880 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 211 x 307 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | 'Second Venice Set', 1886 | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 44 | |
Catalogues: | K.206; M.203; W.175 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (44) |
PUBLICATION
Whistler delivered in all 1093 prints and was paid £2.10.6 for printing each dozen prints. 17
17: Dowdeswell to Whistler, invoice 16 July 1887, GUW #00891.
EXHIBITIONS
18: London FAS 1883 (cat. no. 24).
19: 'Mr. Whistler's Venice', St James' Gazette, 9 December 1880 (GUL Whistler PC4/16).
20: ibid., St James' Gazette, 9 December 1880. In fact it was from the Casa Jankowitz.
21: St James Gazette, 20 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/30).
22: Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Exhibition', Saturday Review, 24 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/32).
Other print dealer's exhibitions commenced with those of H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, the first in 1883, based on Whistler's F.A.S. exhibition, followed by one in 1898, when the exhibit (reproduced above) was sold to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (), and two further exhibitions in 1903. Other print dealer's shows included Obach & Co. in London in 1903 and F. Keppel & Co. in New York in 1902 and 1904.
After Whistler's death, other impressions were shown at the Whistler Memorial Exhibitions, at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904; at the Copley Society in Boston, also in 1904, lent again by Mansfield; in Paris; in London, lent by King Edward VII, in 1905; and in Rotterdam in 1906, lent by Ernest Marsh (fl. 1935). 26
23: Chicago 1893 (cat. no. 2244); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
24: Chicago 1900 (cat. nos. 155, 155a).
25: Glasgow 1901 (cat. no. 227). Philadelphia 1902 (cat. nos. 947- 175)
26: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 138); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 175); Rotterdam 1906 (cat. no. 86).
SALES & COLLECTORS
From 1886 most impressions were sold by Messrs Dowdeswell and Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840- d.1892). In 1887 they gave a complete 'Second Venice Set' to the British Museum (). Dowdeswell's sold either directly to collectors or through other dealers. Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), for instance, bought one from Frederick Keppel & Co. in 1887 (). Thibaudeau sold one through Gustave Lauser (b. ca 1841) to H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, in May 1888, as part of an album of the 'Second Venice Set' for £52.10.0 and this was bought by Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) in 1890 ().
Other early collectors included Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) (), George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909) (), Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) () and Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) ().
31: Christie’s, 27 November 1888 (lot 174).
32: Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 270).