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The Old Swan Brewery, Chelsea |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46770) | |
| Number: | 105 | |
| Date: | 1872/1873 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 67 x 99 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 12 | |
| Catalogues: | K.98; M.97; W.89 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (12) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). 16
Later it was for sale in exhibitions by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York, in 1898 and 1903, and by Obach & Co. in London, also in 1903. It also starred in a show organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900, as '“Swan” Brewery', where both Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) and Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) lent impressions (
and ). 17
16: New York 1881 (cat. no. 118).
17: Chicago 1900 (cat. nos. 84, 84a); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
18: New York 1904a (cat. no. 93); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 89).
SALES & COLLECTORS
). This is the earliest recorded owner, though Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) must have been among the earliest owners. At the Hutchinson sale in 1892, an impression was bought by the London print dealer Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) for only £0.17.0. 19
19: Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 142).
). It had clearly been recently signed by Whistler. Wunderlich's then replenished their stocks, buying an impression as 'Swan Brewery' from Whistler in April 1900 for £4.4.0. 20 This may have been the impression owned by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) () or Harry Brisbane Dick (1855-1916) ().20: Wunderlich & Co. to Whistler, 6 April 1900, GUW #07322.
) and sold another ().