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Greenhithe |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.364) | |
| Number: | 173 | |
| Date: | 1877 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 151 x 227 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 25 | |
| Catalogues: | K.165; M.161; W.135 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (25) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
), and to the Annual Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1902. 14
Following Whistler's death, impressions appeared in the major Memorial Exhibitions including one impression at the Grolier Club, New York, and two different states in the Copley Society show in Boston, both in 1904. Another impression was shown at the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 15
13: New York 1898 (cat. no. 114).
14: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 119); Philadelphia 1902 (cat. no. 947). See REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
15: New York 1904a (cat. no. 137); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 101, 102); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 135).
SALES & COLLECTORS
In 1887 Whistler sold one for £12.12.0 - twice the original price - to the London print dealer Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832). This is a startling increase and may reflect a particularly good impression, or really effective salesmanship. 18
Impressions marked '3' and '8' were owned by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935), followed by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), who gave them to the National Gallery of Art (
, ). Confusingly, Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) also owned one marked '3' (), which passed to the New York Public Library. Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought an early impression in 1898 (). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) owned one marked (definitely by Whistler) 'x 5.', and this eventually was bought for the Library of Congress ().16: 22-27 October [1877], GUW #12737; 12 October-5 November and [16/21] November [1877], #12735 and #12740; [19/22 October 1877], #12736.
17: New York 1904a (cat. no. 137); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 135).
18: 17 May 1887, GUW #13011.
), by the British Museum in 1887 (), by Thomas Glen Arthur (1858-1907), also in 1887 (), by Freer in 1893 (), and by the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, in 1896 ().