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The Cock and the Pump |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46914) | |
| Number: | 321 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 222 x 144 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 7 | |
| Catalogues: | K.304; M.299; W.235 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (7) | ||
PUBLICATION
The Cock and Pump was never published.
EXHIBITIONS
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) lent an impression to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 (
). 9
An impression was also shown in a print dealer's show at Obach & Co. in London in 1903, and in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death. Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent an impression to the Boston show of 1904 () and Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) to the London show in 1905 (). 10
). 9
An impression was also shown in a print dealer's show at Obach & Co. in London in 1903, and in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death. Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent an impression to the Boston show of 1904 (
) and Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) to the London show in 1905 (). 10
9: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 205); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
10: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 171); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 235).
SALES & COLLECTORS
The price asked by Whistler was £12.12.0 and sales to print dealers were brisk. He sold the first on 21 December 1887 to the London dealer, Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832) and others shortly afterwards, on 1 and on 10 February 1888, to Messrs Dowdeswell. 11 One of these was almost certainly bought by Margaret Selkirk Watson Parker (1867-1936) (), from whom it passed to the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Another may have been bought by Thomas Glen Arthur (1858-1907), and was later owned by Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932) of Wunderlich & Co., by Charles C. Cunningham (1910-1979), and finally by the National Gallery of Australia ().
), from whom it passed to the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Another may have been bought by Thomas Glen Arthur (1858-1907), and was later owned by Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932) of Wunderlich & Co., by Charles C. Cunningham (1910-1979), and finally by the National Gallery of Australia ().Whistler's next sales were to New York dealers: on 29 June 1888 to H. Wunderlich & Co., and a few days later, on 2 July 1888 to Frederick Keppel (1845-1912) of F. Keppel & Co. 12
This may have been the one bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1898 ().
).An impression was sold from the collection of the late Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) at Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 326) and bought by another London print dealer, Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) for £5.10.0 (). This was later owned by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935), and bought in 1970 at a local auction by the University of Glasgow, to join the Whistler collection based on the artist's estate.
). This was later owned by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935), and bought in 1970 at a local auction by the University of Glasgow, to join the Whistler collection based on the artist's estate.