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The Camp |  Freer Gallery of Art (1893.46) | |
| Number: | 80 | |
| Date: | 1861 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 288 x 159 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | '1861.' at lower left | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 20 | |
| Catalogues: | K.82; M.82; T.68; W.75 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (20) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
), and to the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900. 16
Impressions were rarely exhibited, although one appeared at H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898. 17
After Whistler's death, an impression was exhibited in the comprehensive Memorial Show in the Grolier Club, New York in 1904, while another one was lent from the Royal Collection to the Whistler Memorial Show in London in 1905. 18
16: New York 1881 (cat. no. 104) Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 70).
17: New York 1898 (cat. no. 71); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
18: New York 1904a (cat. no. 78); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 75).
SALES & COLLECTORS
). 19 The Museum also bought a cancelled set in 1887 (). Several of these albums of cancelled impressions may have come on the market around 1887, and certainly Thomas Glen Arthur (1858-1907) bought one in that year ().19: Whistler to W. H. Carpenter, 3 August 1863, GUW #11109.
20: 14-16 November [1877], GUW #13668.
), and George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909) (). Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) bought two sets, probably when she acquired the copper plates from Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851); these included and .