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Barges, Dordrecht |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46890) | |
| Number: | 262 | |
| Date: | 1886 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 66 x 99 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 10 | |
| Catalogues: | K.244; M.241 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (10) | ||
PUBLICATION
Barges, Dordrecht was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
No exhibition is known in Whistler's lifetime. However, it was exhibited by H. Wunderlich & Co., in New York in 1903, and at the Grolier Club, also in New York, in 1904. 8
8: New York 1903b (cat. no. 240); New York 1904a (cat. no. 296).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler's first sold two Dordrecht etchings, 'Little Dordrecht' (Little Dordrecht
[260]) at £3.3.0 and Barges, Dordrecht at £2.2.0, to the London print dealer, Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832) in November 1886. 9
9: Whistler to McLean, [1 November 1886], GUW #13010.
Collectors who acquired impressions after the artist's death included Charles Deering (1852-1927) (
) and Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), who bought one from Obach & Co. in London in 1904 ().
Several impressions from the damaged plate have been located. They were offered for sale in Great Britain in 1961, 1991, 2004 and 2011, and all were printed posthumously (see, and ). 10
) and Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), who bought one from Obach & Co. in London in 1904 ().Several impressions from the damaged plate have been located. They were offered for sale in Great Britain in 1961, 1991, 2004 and 2011, and all were printed posthumously (see
, and ). 10
10: The most recent sales were at Chiswick auctions, London, 27 June 2011.