UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Railway-Station, Voves

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1924.662)
Number: 387
Date: 1888
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 130 x 220 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right (2)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 6
Catalogues: K.371; M.371
Impressions taken from this plate  (6)

PUBLICATION

Railway Station, Voves was not published.

EXHIBITIONS

It was first exhibited by the print dealers H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898. 9 An impression was lent by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 (Graphic with a link to impression #K3710102) 10

Later it was shown in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death: at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904; at the exhibition organised by the Copley Society in Boston in 1904, lent by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (Graphic with a link to impression #K3710105); in Paris and in London in 1905. 11

9: New York 1898 (cat. no. 277).

10: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 310).

11: New York 1904a (cat. no. 356); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 214); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.

SALES & COLLECTORS

At £6.6.0 Whistler sold impressions to H. Wunderlich & Co., print dealers in New York on 14 May 1889, on 20 July to Knoedler & Co. and on 23 July 1889 to Howard Mansfield (1849-1938). 12

The proof bought by Mansfield was inscribed '1st Proof 1st State' by the artist (Graphic with a link to impression #K3710105). W. H. Bustin (fl. 1958wn) bought the '2nd Proof. 1st State' (Graphic with a link to impression #K3710104) and Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought the '3rd Proof. / 1st State' from Wunderlich's in 1889 (Graphic with a link to impression #K3710103).

12: GUW #13056, #13660, #13046.

Wunderlich's recorded sales in 1896, 1897, 1899 and 1900 . 13 Other early purchasers probably included Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) (Graphic with a link to impression #K3710102) and John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911) (Graphic with a link to impression #K3710202).

13: Wunderlich's to Whistler, September 1897, GUW #07287; 24 March 1899, #07305; 16 April 1900, #07330.