Little Dordrecht |  Art Institute of Chicago (1938.1881) | |
| Number: | 260 | |
| Date: | 1886 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 95 x 132 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 12 | |
| Catalogues: | K.243; M.240 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (12) | ||
PUBLICATION
It was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
No exhibitions are known in Whistler's lifetime. However, it was exhibited by H. Wunderlich & Co., New York in 1903, and at the Grolier Club, also in New York, in 1904. 7
7: New York 1903b (cat. no. 241); New York 1904a (cat. no. 295).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler first sold two Dordrecht etchings ('Little Dordrecht' at £3.3.0 and 'Barges Dordrecht' (Barges, Dordrecht [262]) at £2.2.0, to Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832), in 1886. 8
8: Whistler to McLean, [1 November 1886], GUW #13010.
Early collectors included Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937) and Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) (
); Harry Brisbane Dick (1855-1916) (); Clarence Buckingham (1855-1913) (); and Franco's Gerard Waller (b. 1867) (). Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought two, one from Wunderlich's in 1903 () and another from Obach & Co. in 1904 ().
); Harry Brisbane Dick (1855-1916) (); Clarence Buckingham (1855-1913) (); and Franco's Gerard Waller (b. 1867) (). Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought two, one from Wunderlich's in 1903 () and another from Obach & Co. in 1904 ().