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The Landing Stage, Cowes |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46947) | |
| Number: | 309 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 134 x 96 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 15 | |
| Catalogues: | K.328; M.322; W.245 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (15) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
Impressions were shown in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and in Paris and London in the following year. An impression was lent by King Edward VII to the London Memorial Exhibition (
). 10
9: New York 1898 (cat. no. 226); New York 1903b (cat. no. 194).
10: New York 1904a (cat. no. 258); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 397); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 245).
SALES & COLLECTORS
); others were acquired by Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924) () and Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) ().). He also bought one that was marked with a small 'o', probably by Whistler as a mark of quality (), from Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) in 1904. Miss Philip had inherited another six impressions which she gave to the University of Glasgow, including the first proof () and one marked 'oo' (). Another impression marked 'oo', from the album originally presented to Queen Victoria (), was sold by King Edward VII through Agnew's, London, in 1906, and bought from Obach & Co. by Freer, who sold it back to Miss Philip. She gave the album, including this impression, to the University of Glasgow in 1935.