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The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels |  Art Institute of Chicago (1917.509) | |
| Number: | 346 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 128 x 178 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 8 | |
| Known impressions: | 17 | |
| Catalogues: | K.357; M.356; W.253 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (17) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). 9
Messrs Obach & Co. exhibited an impression in London in 1903, and others appeared in the Memorial Exhibitions after the artist's death - at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, in Paris in 1905, and, lent by Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934), at the London show, also in 1905. 10 Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) inherited several impressions from Whistler and lent one to the Rotterdam memorial show in 1906 (
,
,
,
,
,
,
or !). 11
7: Paris Exp. Univ. 1889 (cat. no. 419).
8: New York 1898 (cat. no. 257); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
9: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 219).
10: London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 253).
11: Rotterdam 1906 (cat. no. 50).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Early British collectors included John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) (
), John Postle Heseltine (1843-1929), who bought one directly from Whistler in 1889, 14 and Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891). An impression was sold at the auction of Hutchinson's collection in 1892 and bought by the print dealer Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) for much less - £5.5.0 (). 15 It was later acquired by Clarence Buckingham (1855-1913) and left by his sisters to the Art Institute of Chicago.). The artist sold another on 18 December 1888 to the Fine Art Society and one was sold (or at least offered) on 13 December 1889 to Durand-Ruel. 17
Ten years later, but at a slightly lower price, after a substantial discount, Whistler sold an impression to Wunderlich's for £8.8.0 and another at £7.7.0. 18
American collectors, who acquired good impressions, included Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (
and probably ) and Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916), who owned one by 1900 ().
However, Whistler still had a lot left and bequeathed several to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who gave one (
) and bequeathed others (,
,
,
,
,
) to the University of Glasgow.