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The Long House (The Dyers, Amsterdam) |  Freer Gallery of Art (1905.200) | |
| Number: | 453 | |
| Date: | 1889 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 166 x 271 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly to upper left of centre | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 6 | |
| Known impressions: | 14 | |
| Catalogues: | K.406; M.408; W.266 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (14) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). 16
Impressions were shown at international exhibitions, in Dresden in 1901 and 1902 (
), and Philadelphia in 1902 (the latter lent by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). One appeared for sale at Obach & Co. in London in 1903. 17
After Whistler's death, impressions were shown in the comprehensive Memorial Exhibitions. One impression was shown at the Grolier Club in 1904; Mansfield lent his impression to the Copley Society show in Boston in the same year; and King Edward VII lent to the London Memorial of 1905 (
). 18
15: London Dunthorne 1890 .
16: New York 1890a , Chicago 1893 (cat. no. 2266 [1685]); Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 232).
17: See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
18: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 193); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 266).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler sold impressions on 4 March 1890 to two major rival collectors, to Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) for £12.12.0 (
), and to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) for £15.15.0 (). 20 It is likely that this was the early state inscribed
'Chs. L. Freer' (). 19: GUW #13039; London Dunthorne 1890 .
20: GUW #13047, #13065; Merrill 1995 , p. 67 (Letter 2), GUW #01501.
); the second by John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) (who probably bought it from one of the English dealers, Dunthorne, or the Fine Art Society) (); the fourth by H. Wunderlich' & Co., and this was also inscribed 'for Wunderlich' (); and the fifth possibly by Dowdeswell, and later by Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) (). It was sold at auction after Hutchinson's death and bought by Thomas Way (1837-1915) for £10.0.0, and Way sold it to Freer in 1905. 21
21: Sotheby’s, 3 March 1892 (lot 344).
), and this was sold in 1906 through the London art dealers, Agnew's to Wunderlich's in New York, and bought by Albert W. Scholle (1860-1917).24: GUW #13044.
). The next sale recorded by Whistler was on 19 May 1897 to Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), still at the old price of £12.12.0. 26 Finally in 1901 Whistler sold eight etchings (including
) and a lithograph to the Königl. Kupferstichkabinett Dresden at £50.0.0 for the lot. 27 The Hamburger Kunsthalle also acquired a fine, inscribed, impression (). Early collectors included John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) and Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) (
); George Washington Vanderbilt (1862-1914) (); Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937) (); Albert Henry Wiggin (1868-1951) (); William P. Chapman, Jr (); Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) and Claude Wampler (1895) (); and Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) ().