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Dieppe |  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1949.5.265) | |
| Number: | 251 | |
| Date: | 1885 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 51 x 83 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 5 | |
| Catalogues: | K.246; M.244; W.202 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (5) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
Impressions were shown by H. Wunderlich & Co., New York in 1898 and 1903. Both Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) and Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent impressions to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900: (
) and (). 10
After Whistler's death, impressions were shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 11
8: London Hogarth 1887 . See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
9: Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Etchings', The Standard, London, 3 March 1887 (GUL PC7/18-19).
10: Chicago 1900 (cat. nos. 179, 179a).
11: New York 1904a (cat. no. 210); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 202).
SALES & COLLECTORS
) and another possibly to Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (). These went eventually to the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC (the latter a gift of Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971)). Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought an impression from Obach & Co., London, in December 1903 (
). One impression owned by Ralph Harmon Booth (1873-1931) was acquired by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) and bought eventually by the Library of Congress (). Another was given by Atherton Curtis (1863-1944) to the Cabinet des estampes, Bibliothèque nationale de France in 1943 ().