Etchings Institutions search term: freer gallery
Venetian Water Carrier |  Freer Gallery of Art (1908.7) | |
| Number: | 197 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 200 x 126 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 3 | |
| Catalogues: | K.232; M.229 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (3) | ||
PUBLICATION
Venetian Water-Carrier was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
No exhibitions are known in Whistler's lifetime. Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) owned an impression (
), which he lent to the Whistler Memorial show in Boston in 1904 and another was shown in the same year at the comprehensive Memorial Exhibition at the Grolier Club, New York. 3
), which he lent to the Whistler Memorial show in Boston in 1904 and another was shown in the same year at the comprehensive Memorial Exhibition at the Grolier Club, New York. 3
3: New York 1904a (cat. no. 206); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 159).
SALES & COLLECTORS
All three known impressions are now in Washington, DC. Otto Henry Bacher (1856-1909) owned an impression () probably acquired from Whistler in Venice; he sold this to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1904. Another faint working proof was bought by Freer from E. Gottschalk in 1908. Freer bequeathed both to the Freer Gallery of Art. The only other impression, originally owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (), was sold to Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), and was later given by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) to the National Gallery of Art.
) probably acquired from Whistler in Venice; he sold this to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1904. Another faint working proof was bought by Freer from E. Gottschalk in 1908. Freer bequeathed both to the Freer Gallery of Art. The only other impression, originally owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (), was sold to Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), and was later given by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) to the National Gallery of Art.