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The Little Mast | ||
Number: | 196 | |
Date: | 1879/1880 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 269 x 189 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | 'First Venice Set', 1880 | |
No. of States: | 8 | |
Known impressions: | 50 | |
Catalogues: | K.185; M.182; W.151 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (50) |
PUBLICATION
11: London FAS 1880 ; copy in GUL PC15/7.
EXHIBITIONS
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The Little Mast was not included in the original 1880 catalogue for the show at the Fine Art Society in London, although there is a copy of the catalogue with the title added in ink, replacing 'The Bridge'. However, it was The Bridge that appeared in the show 14 , and The Little Mast that was published in the 'First Venice Set'.
13: New York 1881 (cat. no. 156); see REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
14: London FAS 1880 ; copy in GUL PC15/7.
'At the service of critics of unequal sizes.' 15
15: London FAS 1883 (cat. no. 36).
16: London FAS 1883 (cat. no. 46).
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After Whistler's death, impressions were shown at the Whistler Memorial Exhibitions, at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904; in London, lent from the Royal Collection in 1905 (
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17: New York 1898 (cat. no.130).
18: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 132); Glasgow 1901 (cat. no. 229).
19: New York 1904a (cat. no. 152); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 151); Rotterdam 1906 (cat. no. 62).
SALES & COLLECTORS
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20: Inventory books, Kupferstichkabinett Berlin.
21: GUW #13020.
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22: GUW #13040.
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US collectors included Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924), who bought a set from Wunderlich's in 1890 (
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