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Sketching, No. 2 | ||
Number: | 84 | |
Date: | 1861 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 118 x 164 mm | |
Signed: | 'Whistler' at lower right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 1 | |
Catalogues: | K.87; M.85 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (1) |
PUBLICATION
It was not published. It is possible it was intended as an illustration for J.H. Reynolds's 'The Angler's Soliloquy', Passages from Modern English Poets, London, [1862] but rejected in favour of The Punt
[82].
EXHIBITIONS
It was exhibited in two exhibitions in New York: one at the print firm of H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1903, and secondly at the Grolier Club in 1904. 5
5: New York 1903 (cat. no. 237); New York 1904a (cat. no. 72).
SALES & COLLECTORS
The sole known impression was owned first by Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), and later sold by H. Wunderlich & Co. to Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) ().