The Beach, Hastings |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.253) | |
| Number: | 150 | |
| Date: | 1875/1878 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 160 x 235 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 20 | |
| Catalogues: | K.116; M.100; W.101 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (20) | ||
The Beach, Hastings dates from 1875/1877.
On one impression Whistler wrote the date, '1873.' Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) added 'His mother there at the time.' (
). However, the date of 1873 is unlikely - it was 1875 before Anna Matilda Whistler (1804-1881) retired to Hastings where she lived until her death in 1881.
The Beach, Hastings was first recorded as sold, to Charles Augustus Howell (1840?-1890), in 1877. 1
). However, the date of 1873 is unlikely - it was 1875 before Anna Matilda Whistler (1804-1881) retired to Hastings where she lived until her death in 1881.The Beach, Hastings was first recorded as sold, to Charles Augustus Howell (1840?-1890), in 1877. 1
1: Howell to Whistler, [6-15 November 1877], GUW #02178.