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The Dam Wood |  Freer Gallery of Art (1906.106) | |
| Number: | 133 | |
| Date: | 1874/1875 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 177 x 113 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right (3-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 11 | |
| Catalogues: | K.145; M.143; W.120 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (11) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). 9 Impressions were lent by both Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) () and Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) () to a show organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900. 10 An impression was among a large group by Whistler lent by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1902 (). 11
Impressions also appeared in print dealer's shows, at H. Wunderlich & Co. New York, in 1898 and 1903, at Obach & Co. in London in 1903, and at F. Keppel & Co. in New York in 1904. 12
Finally, after Whistler's death, impressions were exhibited at the Whistler Memorial Exhibitions in Boston in 1904 and in London and Paris in 1905. 13
9: New York 1881 (cat. no. 139).
10: Chicago 1900 (cat. nos. 108 and 108a).
11: Philadelphia 1902 (cat. no. 947).
12: New York 1898 (cat. no. 103); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
13: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 91); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 120); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 341).
SALES & COLLECTORS
The price had doubled by 1886, when Whistler sold one to another London print dealer, Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832), and in 1887, to Messrs Dowdeswell, and in 1893, to the Fine Art Society, for £4.4.0 each. 15
The impression sold to Dowedeswell may have been bought by Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891), and sold at auction after his death, when Edmund F. Deprez (1851-1915) of Deprez & Gutekunst bought it for £4.0.0. 16 This was bought for the Royal Collection, and sold in 1906 through Agnew's, Wunderlich's and Obach's in turn, eventually being bought by Margaret Selkirk Watson Parker (1867-1936) (
). In the summer of 1897, and again in 1900, Whistler sold a single impression to H. Wunderlich & Co. for a few dollars more, £6.6.0. 17 Wunderlich's sold a first state impression to Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) (
, stock nos. 9104 and 41274), which was later acquired by the Library of Congress.); James Guthrie Orchar (1825-1888) () and Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938) (). American collectors included Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), who bought it in the mid-1870s (); Clarence Buckingham (1855-1913) () and Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) (), whose prints went to the Art Institute of Chicago; Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) and Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937) (). Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought impressions of the first () and third () states - the first from Sir John Day's collection - from Obach & Co. in 1906.