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T. A. Nash's Greengrocer's Shop | ||
Number: | 298 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 178 x 126 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 5 | |
Known impressions: | 10 | |
Catalogues: | K.263; M.260; W.215 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (10) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
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Impressions were included in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, including the Grolier Club in New York in 1904. Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) lent an impression to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905 and Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) lent one to the Rotterdam exhibition of 1906 (
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11: Paris Exp. Univ. 1889 (cat. no. 419).
12: See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
13: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 185).
14: London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 215); Rotterdam 1906 (cat. no. 58).
SALES & COLLECTORS
In the following year Whistler sent an impression to H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York to be forwarded to Ross Revillon Winans (1850-1912), for £6.6.0. Another, at the same price, went to Knoedler & Co. for £6.6.0. 16
However, a year later, in 1889, he was selling impressions at £10.10.0 each to John Postle Heseltine (1843-1929), Samuel Joshua (1833 or 1834 - d. 1907) and Durand-Ruel, although it is not entirely clear if all these were sold or just offered. 17
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The prices received by Whistler were usually higher than those at auction. For instance at the sale of the collection of the late Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) at Sotheby’s, 3 March 1892 (lot 318) 'Nash's Fruit Shop' was bought by the London print dealer Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) for only £2.15.0. However, when he bought an impression directly from Whistler, shortly before the artist's death in 1903, he paid £12.12.0. 20
![Graphic with a link to impression #K2630402](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K2630303](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K2630406](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K2630403](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K2630z02](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K2630404](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K2630z01](../../images/etchlink.gif)