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Auguste Delâtre, Printer |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.242) | |
| Number: | 28 | |
| Date: | 1858/1859 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 84 x 56 mm | |
| Signed: | 'J. Whistler.' at upper right | |
| Inscribed: | 'Homage / à Mme. Delatre.' at upper right | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 24 | |
| Catalogues: | K.26; M.26; T.14; W.21 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (24) | ||
PUBLICATION
). Many albums were broken up but some impressions are still in the original album (i.e. , ).EXHIBITIONS
It was also seen in shows organised by clubs for connoisseurs and collectors. The impression owned by Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) (
) was shown at the Union League Club in New York in 1881, and described as 'Whistler's printer, very rare.' 12
Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent an impression to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900. 13
It also appeared in print dealer's shows, particularly at H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898 and 1903. Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought one from the 1898 show (
). 14
Finally it was exhibited in Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death. An impression was shown at the Grolier Club, New York in 1904 and a proof of the cancelled state was lent by Ernest Brown & Philips to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 15
11: London Pall Mall 1874 (cat. no. 4); Liverpool 1874 (cat. no. 476); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
12: New York 1881 (cat. no. 31).
13: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 21).
14: New York 1898 (cat. no. 20); New York 1903b (cat. no. 16)
15: New York 1904a (cat. no. 22); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 21).
SALES & COLLECTORS
). This was acquired by Philippe Burty (1830-1890), and probably bought at the Burty sale at Sotheby's, 27 April 1876, by Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904). Avery catalogued his impression as 'Whistler's printer, very rare' when exhibited in New York in 1881. 17 Whistler also emphasized the rarity value of this print in its original condition by writing on Mansfield's impression, at some time in the 1890s, 'Portrait of Delatre / the printer / Rare -' (
). 'Portrait of Delatre' figures in a large collection of etchings that H. Wunderlich & Co. of New York had 'on hand' (with no details given) in 1897. 18 In November 1898 an impression from the collection of Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910) was bought from Wunderlich's by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (
). Another early impression, from the collection of Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), was probably sold through Wunderlich's, and was in the hands of Frederick Keppel (1845-1912) of F. Keppel & Co. by 1919, when it was sold to Albert Henry Wiggin (1868-1951), becoming part of the print collection of Boston Public Library.Individual cancelled impressions, probably removed from the cancelled set, are to be found in a number of major public collections (see
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17: New York 1881 (cat. no. 31).
18: Wunderlich to Whistler, [August 1897], GUW #07289.