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The Storm |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.323) | |
| Number: | 81 | |
| Date: | 1861 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 156 x 286 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | '1861.' at lower right | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 36 | |
| Catalogues: | K.81; M.83; T.74; W.77 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (36) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
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The Storm was among etchings selected for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), 11 who also lent his own impression of The Storm to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in Boston in 1904 (
). One was also exhibited by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900, lent by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) (). 12
In addition, impressions appeared for sale in two print dealer's shows, at H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1898 and 1903. 13
9: Liverpool 1874 (cat. no. 525). See REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
10: New York 1881 (cat. no. 106).
11: Mansfield to Whistler, 10 January 1893, GUW #04000.
12: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 72).
13: New York 1898 (cat. no. 73); New York 1903b (cat. no. 63).
14: New York 1904a (cat. no. 80); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 63); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 325); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 77).
SALES & COLLECTORS
One of the earliest impressions was inscribed 'A mon ami Delâtre / Whistler' and given by the artist to Auguste Delâtre (1822-1907) (
). It was then acquired by Philippe Burty (1830-1890) before being sold at Sotheby's on 27 April 1876 (lot 930) and bought by the British Museum. The Museum acquired a set of the cancelled etchings (including ) in 1887.Several print dealers bought impressions at auctions. An individual impression was sold at Christie's on 8-9 March 1892 (lot 310) for £6.0.0, bought by Edmund F. Deprez (1851-1915) of Deprez & Gutekunst. A cancelled set of etchings, sold with the collection of Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840- d.1892) at Sotheby's on 13 December 1889 (lot 787 or 789) was bought by Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851), for £0.6.0. This set (including
), was acquired by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) and bequeathed to the University of Glasgow, 1958.In 1898 Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought a unique proof of the first state that originally came from the collection of Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910), from Wunderlich's (
). He also acquired a second state from the same dealers in August 1891 () and a cancelled set (published by the Fine Art Society) in 1893 ().17: Kennedy Ledgers, Colby College of Art.