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Vauxhall Bridge |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.313) | |
| Number: | 75 | |
| Date: | 1861 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 69 x 114 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | '1861' at lower right (G.2) | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 36 | |
| Catalogues: | K.70; M.70; T.46; W.66 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (36) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). 9 Another large exhibition was organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900, to which Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) was the chief lender () 10
Other important exhibitions were held by print dealers, particularly H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York, in 1898 and 1903. Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought two impressions from this 1898 show (
, ). 11
Finally impressions were exhibited in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, including one impression lent by Freer (probably
) to the Grolier Club in New York in 1904. One impression was also lent from the Royal Collection to the London show of 1905. 12
8: Paris Soc. Nat. 1862 ; see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
9: New York 1881 (cat. no. 93).
10: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 61).
11: New York 1898 (cat. no. 63).
12: New York 1904a (cat. no. 68, 68b); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 66).
SALES & COLLECTORS
). 13 H. Stewart Cundell commented on the etchings in the Print Room:13: B.M. Print Room Register of Purchases... 1872.
14: 'English Etching', The Standard, London, 25 April 1878, p. 2 (GUL PC1/94).
). However, on the whole the etching was not acquired by other public collections until after Whistler's death. The Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, for instance, was given one in 1910 (), while the Victoria & Albert Museum acquired one in 1905 that is not in a good condition (), and a much richer impression in 1919 ().15: Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 118); Christie's, 8-9 March 1892 (lot 315).
). He then bought two impressions from the collection of Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910) through Wunderlich's, New York - the sole extant first state () and a less striking second state (). 16: Kennedy 1910 (cat. no. 70).