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Fishing Boats, Hastings |  Colby College Museum of Art, Maine (2013.348) | |
| Number: | 163 | |
| Date: | 1876/1877 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 152 x 255 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left (1); replaced with new butterfly (2-3); replaced again (4) | |
| Inscribed: | 'Hastings -' at lower right | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 7 | |
| Catalogues: | K.158; M.155; W.131 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (7) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). 6 Later, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent one to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900. 7
An impression shown by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1903 8 and bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (
) is reproduced below.
No less than three impressions were shown in the comprehensive show at the Grolier Club, also in New York, in 1904, one again probably lent by Freer (
). 9 One was lent from the Royal Collection to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905 (). 10
6: New York 1881 (cat. no. 145).
7: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 116).
8: New York 1903b (cat. no. 98); See REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
9: New York 1903b (cat. no. 98); New York 1904a (cat. nos. 134a,b,c).
10: London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 131).
SALES & COLLECTORS
) and Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (). An impression signed by Whistler about 1887 was owned by Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924) and sold through H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1903 (). Freer bought another - a touched proof, reproduced below - from Obach & Co. two years later (). 
One impression was sold at auction at Sotheby's, 29 March 1892 (lot 419) and bought by 'Cross' for a modest £1.2.0. Messrs Dowdeswell owned one that went to Clarence Buckingham (1855-1913), and was eventually bequeathed by his sisters to the Art Institute of Chicago (
). One from the Royal Collection was acquired by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935), and later by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), who gave it to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC ().