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The Beach, Hastings |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.253) | |
| Number: | 150 | |
| Date: | 1875/1878 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 160 x 235 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 20 | |
| Catalogues: | K.116; M.100; W.101 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (20) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). 12
It was exhibited in New York by the print dealers H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1903. 13
After Whistler's death, impressions were shown in the comprehensive show at the Grolier Club in 1904, as well as in the London Memorial Exhibition of 1905. 14
12: New York 1881 (cat. no. 129); Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 95).
13: New York 1903b (cat. no. 82); see REFERENCE : EXHIBITIONS.
14: New York 1904a (cat. no. 107); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 101).
SALES & COLLECTORS
). Whistler sold an impression of 'Hastings Shore' to Charles Augustus Howell (1840?-1890) in November 1877 for £1.1.0. 15
One impression, described as a 'Trial Proof' was at one time with Charles Dowdeswell (1856?-1921), and later, Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) and Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), before being bought by the Library of Congress (
). Another impression that may have come direct from Whistler was owned by Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), and later sold through Obach & Co., London, to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in December 1903 ().15: 16-21 November 1877, GUW #12740.