Booth at a Fair |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.40) | |
| Number: | 257 | |
| Date: | 1886 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 133 x 98 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 6 | |
| Catalogues: | K.249; M.245; W.203 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (6) | ||
Booth at a Fair dates from 1886. It was first listed by Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921) in 1886. 1 It was first sold on 27 July 1887. 2
If, as Wedmore suggests, the etching was done in France, then it might date from August 1886. Whistler was in Paris on 21 August and in Melun, Seine-et-Marne by the following day, where he visited George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909), who sat for the Portrait of George A. Lucas [y355]; Whistler spent a day or two working in the area. 3 He may have made other brief trips to France but this is the only one confirmed.
If, as Wedmore suggests, the etching was done in France, then it might date from August 1886. Whistler was in Paris on 21 August and in Melun, Seine-et-Marne by the following day, where he visited George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909), who sat for the Portrait of George A. Lucas [y355]; Whistler spent a day or two working in the area. 3 He may have made other brief trips to France but this is the only one confirmed.