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Temple Bar |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46786) | |
| Number: | 175 | |
| Date: | 1877 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 214 x 137 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 5 | |
| Catalogues: | K.162; M.159; W.133 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (5) | ||
PUBLICATION
Temple Bar was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
There is no record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime, but an impression was lent from the Royal Collection to the Whistler Memorial show in London in 1905. 15
15: London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 133).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Charles Augustus Howell (1840?-1890) bought an impression of 'Temple Bar' from Whistler on 24 November 1877. 16 The artist sold 'thirteen more beautiful proofs', including one impression of 'Temple Bar' for £1.1.0 to Alfred Chapman (1839-1917) in the following year. 17
At some time, probably in the early 1880s, Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938) acquired proofs of the first three states, and these were bought through Obach & Co. in 1905 by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (
, , ) who bequeathed them to the Freer Gallery of Art. Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) owned an impression, which was bought later by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), who gave it to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (). The only impression outside Washington is in the University of Glasgow (); its provenance is unknown until it was bought from P. & D. Colnaghi in 1970.
At some time, probably in the early 1880s, Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938) acquired proofs of the first three states, and these were bought through Obach & Co. in 1905 by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (
, , ) who bequeathed them to the Freer Gallery of Art. Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) owned an impression, which was bought later by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), who gave it to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (). The only impression outside Washington is in the University of Glasgow (); its provenance is unknown until it was bought from P. & D. Colnaghi in 1970.