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Gondola under a Bridge |  Freer Gallery of Art (1905.202) | |
| Number: | 227 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 295 x 201 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 3 | |
| Catalogues: | K.227; M.224 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (3) | ||
PUBLICATION
Gondola under a bridge was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
It was very rarely exhibited. The first recorded exhibition was in 1903 when an impression was shown by the print dealers H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York. 5
After Whistler's death an impression was shown in the comprehensive exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and one at the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in Boston, in the same year. 6
After Whistler's death an impression was shown in the comprehensive exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and one at the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in Boston, in the same year. 6
5: New York 1903b (cat. no. 238).
6: New York 1904a (cat. no. 204); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 158).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Otto Henry Bacher (1856-1909) acquired an impression from Whistler in Venice; later it was given by Atherton Curtis (1863-1944) to the Cabinet des estampes, Bibliothèque nationale de France (
). Thomas Way (1837-1915), Whistler's lithographic printer in London, owned one, which he sold to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1905, and which was bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art (). The only other known impression is in a private collection.
). Thomas Way (1837-1915), Whistler's lithographic printer in London, owned one, which he sold to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1905, and which was bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art (). The only other known impression is in a private collection.