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High Street, Brussels | ||
Number: | 343 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 127 x 178 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left and right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 2 | |
Known impressions: | 7 | |
Catalogues: | K.358; M.357; W.254 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (7) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
Impressions were included at the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death: in Boston in 1904, lent by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (); 10 at the Grolier Club in New York, also in 1904; and Paris and, lent by John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908), in London in 1905. 11
8: New York 1889b .
9: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 220); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
10: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 181).
11: New York 1904a (cat. no. 274); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 407); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 254).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Shortly afterwards, on 2 July 1888, he sold another to Frederick Keppel (1845-1912) of F. Keppel & Co. at the same price. 15 This was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in the following year ().
At auction the price was somewhat lower. An impression was sold from the collection of the late Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) at Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 333) to another London print dealer, Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) for £4.5.0. This impression has not been located, indeed it is difficult to match the surviving impressions with the sales records.
American collectors, who may well have bought from Wunderlich's, included John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911), who bought the first state (); Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) () and Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) ().