Etchings Institutions search term: freer gallery
Shipping, Venice |  Freer Gallery of Art (1908.8) | |
| Number: | 217 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 301 x 206 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.229; M.226 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
PUBLICATION
Shipping - Venice was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
No exhibition is known in Whistler's lifetime. It was shown - probably lent by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) - after the artist's death, in the comprehensive exhibition organised by the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 (
). 4
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4: New York 1904a (cat. no. 207) 'Shipping - Venice'.
SALES & COLLECTORS
Otto Henry Bacher (1856-1909) owned the impression of the first state reproduced by Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), and stamped it with his collector's mark prominently in the bottom right corner (). Bacher helped Whistler to print his etchings in the summer of 1880, and acquired some early proofs at that time.
). Bacher helped Whistler to print his etchings in the summer of 1880, and acquired some early proofs at that time.Only two impressions of the second state are known. One was bought from E. Gottschalk (dates unknown) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1907, and passed to the Freer Gallery of Art (). Another was acquired by the Daniel J. Terra Foundation in 1992 ().
). Another was acquired by the Daniel J. Terra Foundation in 1992 ().