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Whistler with the White Lock |  Freer Gallery of Art (1891.15) | |
| Number: | 162 | |
| Date: | 1876/1879 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 118 x 80 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 34 | |
| Catalogues: | K.172; M.169; W.142 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (34) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) lent an impression to the show organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 (). 10
Impressions were also for sale in exhibitions by the print dealer H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898 and (twice) in 1903. 11
After Whistler's death, impressions were shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and at the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 12
10: New York 1881 (cat. no. 151); Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 124). See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
11: New York 1898 (cat. no. 121); New York 1903b (cat. no. 105).
12: New York 1904a (cat. no. 143); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 142).
SALES & COLLECTORS
13: [6-25 November 1877], GUW #02178.
) and Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) () were among early collectors, probably buying impressions in or after 1878. Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought impressions from Wunderlich's of New York in 1891 and 1903 (, ). Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) owned one by 1900 ().), and Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought a set from Knoedler & Co. in 1893 (). Thomas Glen Arthur (1858-1907) also acquired a set in 1887 () which later went to Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Boston Public Library likewise acquired a set ().). 14: Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1889 (lot 787 or 789).
) and one from the plate as finally cancelled were bought from Wunderlich's by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) and were given by him to the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC ().15: Kennedy Ledgers, Colby College of Art.