High Street, Brussels |  Art Institute of Chicago (1924.661) | |
| Number: | 343 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 127 x 178 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left and right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 7 | |
| Catalogues: | K.358; M.357; W.254 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (7) | ||
PUBLICATION
High Street, Brussels was not published officially, but is considered part of a 'Brussels Set'.
EXHIBITIONS
The first recorded exhibition was by the New York Etching Club at the National Academy of Design in 1889. 8 It was also shown by H. Wunderlich & Co., print dealers in New York, in 1898. An impression was lent by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 (
). 9 Another was shown at Obach & Co. in London in 1903.
Impressions were included at the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death: in Boston in 1904, lent by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (); 10 at the Grolier Club in New York, also in 1904; and Paris and, lent by John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908), in London in 1905. 11
). 9 Another was shown at Obach & Co. in London in 1903. Impressions were included at the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death: in Boston in 1904, lent by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (
); 10 at the Grolier Club in New York, also in 1904; and Paris and, lent by John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908), in London in 1905. 11 8: NY-1889b;.
9: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 220); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
10: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 181).
11: New York 1904a (cat. no. 274); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 407); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 254).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler sold an impression on 17 November 1887 to the London print dealer, Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832), for £8.8.0. 12 One was offered at this price to Craibe Angus & Son in Glasgow on 16 December 1887
but it is not certain that it was sold. 13 Whistler then sold impressions on 1 and 10 February 1888 to Messrs Dowdeswell for £10.10.0. 14
Shortly afterwards, on 2 July 1888, he sold another to Frederick Keppel (1845-1912) of F. Keppel & Co. at the same price. 15 This was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in the following year ().
At auction the price was somewhat lower. An impression was sold from the collection of the late Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) at Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 333) to another London print dealer, Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) for £4.5.0. This impression has not been located, indeed it is difficult to match the surviving impressions with the sales records.
Shortly afterwards, on 2 July 1888, he sold another to Frederick Keppel (1845-1912) of F. Keppel & Co. at the same price. 15 This was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in the following year (
).At auction the price was somewhat lower. An impression was sold from the collection of the late Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) at Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 333) to another London print dealer, Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) for £4.5.0. This impression has not been located, indeed it is difficult to match the surviving impressions with the sales records.
Whistler sold an impression for £10.10.0 on 3 May 1888 to H. Wunderlich & Co., who were his main US representatives. 16 On 18 July 1889 Whistler recorded that he had one impression in stock. 17 However, either he located or printed more. He sold Wunderlich's another in September 1897 for £6.6.0 and two more in 1900 and 1901 for £8.8.0 each. 18
American collectors, who may well have bought from Wunderlich's, included John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911), who bought the first state (); Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) () and Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) ().
American collectors, who may well have bought from Wunderlich's, included John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911), who bought the first state (
); Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) () and Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) ().