UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Barges, Dordrecht

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46890)
Number: 262
Date: 1886
Medium: etching
Size: 66 x 99 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 10
Catalogues: K.244; M.241
Impressions taken from this plate  (10)

PUBLICATION

Barges, Dordrecht was not published.

EXHIBITIONS

No exhibition is known in Whistler's lifetime. However, it was exhibited by H. Wunderlich & Co., in New York in 1903, and at the Grolier Club, also in New York, in 1904. 8

8: New York 1903b (cat. no. 240); New York 1904a (cat. no. 296).

SALES & COLLECTORS

Whistler's first sold two Dordrecht etchings, 'Little Dordrecht' (Little Dordrecht [260]) at £3.3.0 and Barges, Dordrecht at £2.2.0, to the London print dealer, Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832) in November 1886. 9

9: Whistler to McLean, [1 November 1886], GUW #13010.

Collectors who acquired impressions after the artist's death included Charles Deering (1852-1927) (Graphic with a link to impression #K2440102) and Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), who bought one from Obach & Co. in London in 1904 (Graphic with a link to impression #K2440103).

Several impressions from the damaged plate have been located. They were offered for sale in Great Britain in 1961, 1991, 2004 and 2011, and all were printed posthumously (see Graphic with a link to impression #, Graphic with a link to impression #K2440109 and Graphic with a link to impression #). 10

10: The most recent sales were at Chiswick auctions, London, 27 June 2011.