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Shipping at Liverpool |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.330) | |
| Number: | 100 | |
| Date: | 1867 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 231 x 155 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler -' at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | '1867 -' at lower right | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 22 | |
| Catalogues: | K.94; M.94; W.84 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (22) | ||
PUBLICATION
and .EXHIBITIONS
) 13 Another impression was exhibited for sale by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898, and bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (). 14
After Whistler's death, an impression was also shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and another at the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 15
13: New York 1881 (cat. no. 112); Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 79).
14: New York 1898 (cat. no. 79).
15: New York 1904a (cat. no. 87); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 84). See REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
SALES & COLLECTORS
). It was signed with Whistler's name, the place, 'Liverpool - ' and his butterfly monogram of ca 1876. It is possible that it was among etchings brought to Whistler for signing in 1876, when Avery noted in his diary: 'June 16. Friday ... to Haden saw my lot selected etchings, had lunch with him. ... To Whistler with Wife, met Miss Montalba. got etchings signed &c.' 16
16: Madeleine Fidell-Beaufort, H. L. Kleinfield, Jeanne K. Welcher, The diaries, 1871-1882, of Samuel P. Avery, art dealer, 1876 III/74.
). Others were owned by Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938) () and Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) ().), and Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought a set from Knoedler & Co. in 1893 (). Thomas Glen Arthur (1858-1907) also acquired a set in 1887 () which later went to Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Boston Public Library acquired a set (). Finally, a set acquired by J. Littauer, Munich was sold to the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 1896 ().). She acquired another set, trimmed the impressions and stuck them on the envelopes containing the copper plates (i.e. ).17: Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1889 (lot 787 or 789).