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Flaming Forge |  Hunterian Art Gallery (54936) | |
| Number: | 490 | |
| Date: | 1901 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 192 x 154 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 16 | |
| Catalogues: | K.-; M.-; T.-; W.- | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (16) | ||
PUBLICATION
It was never published.
EXHIBITIONS
It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.
SALES & COLLECTORS
This etching was not listed by E.G. Kennedy or any other cataloguer. It was printed after Whistler's death in a limited edition by Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956). 10 Most impressions are in the Hunterian Art Gallery.
10: See Hopkinson 2009c , p. 66.
As far as is known this was not sold during Whistler's lifetime. A few impressions were exchanged or sold as duplicates by the Hunterian Art Gallery; one such, for instance, is in Boston Public Library (
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