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Savoy Scaffolding |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46894) | |
| Number: | 317 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 178 x 82 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 11 | |
| Catalogues: | K.267; M.263; W.217 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (11) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). 13 In 1903 impressions were for sale in two print dealers' exhibitions: Wunderlich's in New York and Obach & Co. in London. Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought one from Wunderlich's in 1903 (). 14
Several impressions were shown in exhibitions after Whistler's death, in the comprehensive show at the Grolier Club, New York, in 1904, and the Memorial Exhibitions in London and Paris in 1905. 15
12: New York 1898 (cat. no. 203).
13: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 187).
14: New York 1903b (cat. no. 175); London Obach 1903 (cat. no. 184)
15: New York 1904a (cat. no. 226); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 217)
SALES & COLLECTORS
). He also sold impressions on 29 August and 5 October 1887 to the London print dealer, Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832), for £10.10.0 each - a relatively high price, perhaps reflecting the topicality of the subject. 16 One of these may have been the delicate impression owned by Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), which was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1903 ().16: Whistler to Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832), GUW #13089, #13014.
). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) owned an impression that he lent to the Caxton Club in 1900 (); it was probably sold through A. A. Hahlo & Co., New York, to Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937) in 1919, and was given, thirty years later, by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.17: G. Dieterlen to Whistler, GUW #07158.
), and bequeathed the first proof to the University in 1958 (); two others were sold by the University in the 1970s.