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Landscape with Fisherman |  Hunterian Art Gallery (50309) | |
| Number: | 85 | |
| Date: | 1861 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 152 x 228 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler' at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | '1861.' at lower right | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 18 | |
| Catalogues: | K.83; M.84 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (18) | ||
PUBLICATION
It was published in an album of Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by The Fine Art Society, London, 1879.
EXHIBITIONS
None.
SALES & COLLECTORS
No sales are recorded, except of impressions from the cancelled plate in the 1879 edition. Surviving impressions are almost all from, or still in, albums of the cancelled set. Several sets may have come on the market in 1887, and certainly sets were acquired then by Thomas Glen Arthur (1858-1907) (
) and by the British Museum (). Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought a set from Knoedler & Co. in 1893 (). Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) acquired two impressions, probably at the same time as the copper plate ( and ), the latter being stuck on the envelope containing the plate).
) and by the British Museum (). Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought a set from Knoedler & Co. in 1893 (). Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) acquired two impressions, probably at the same time as the copper plate ( and ), the latter being stuck on the envelope containing the plate).