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The Church - Brussels (Adoration) | ||
Number: | 340 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 213 x 124 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 4 | |
Known impressions: | 9 | |
Catalogues: | K.356; M.352; W.249 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (9) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS


Impressions of The Church – Brussels (Adoration) were also shown at the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, in New York (at the Grolier Club) in 1904 and in London in 1905, the latter lent from the Royal Collection (

8: New York 1898 (cat. no. 252).
9: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 215).
10: New York 1903b (cat. no. 198); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
11: New York 1904a (cat. no. 269); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 249).
SALES & COLLECTORS



On 27 July 1888 Whistler sold an impression at £8.8.0 less 20 per cent discount to Knoedler & Co.; it was No. 16 in the list of 24 impressions sold, and this identification number was written on the etching, which was sold to Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (




