The Forge | ||
Number: | 86 | |
Date: | 1861 | |
Medium: | drypoint | |
Size: | 197 x 319 mm | |
Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower right | |
Inscribed: | '1861' at lower right | |
Set/Publication: | 'Thames Set', 1871 | |
No. of States: | 6 | |
Known impressions: | 95 | |
Catalogues: | K.68; M.68; T.57; W.63 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (95) |
PUBLICATION
15: [F.G. Stephens], The Athenaeum, 26 August 1871, pp. 280-81.
EXHIBITIONS
16: London RA 1863 (cat. no. 972) Pennell 1908, I, p. 101.
17: Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Exhibition', The Builder, 5 July 1874, in GUL PC1/73; London Pall Mall 1874 (cat. no. 2).
18: Liverpool 1874 (cat. no. 521).
19: The Academy, 14 November 1874, p. 544. Liverpool 1874 (cat. no. 521).
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It was also included in print dealer's exhibitions such as those of Craibe Angus in Glasgow (1879). Impressions were shown by Frederick Keppel (1845-1912) of F. Keppel & Co. in 1902, and H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1898 and 1903, in New York. Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) purchased a print from the 1898 show (
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20: New York 1881 (cat. no. 89); Cincinnati 1872 (cat. no. 202). See REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
21: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 58).
22: New York 1898 (cat. no. 60).
23: New York 1904a (cat. no. 67); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 56); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 63).
SALES & COLLECTORS
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In a revealing letter to Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), in July 1873, Whistler boasted of prices received for his prints at auction. An 'early proof on Japanese paper'; from the collection of Arthur Thomas (dates unknown), was sold at Sotheby's on 23 June 1873 and bought for the comparatively high price of £3.10.0 by Ralph Thomas, Jr (1840-1876). Whistler then wrote to Avery - who had bought or was about to buy two impressions (
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24: GUW #11109.
25: Whistler to S. P. Avery, [7 July 1873], GUW #10628.
27: Wedmore 1899 (cat. no. 57).
28: Whistler to T. Way, 12 February 1880, GUW #06080.
29: Sotheby's, 12 February 1880, annotated sale catalogue, GUL SC 1880.1.
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30: Christie's, 8-9 March 1892 (lot 329).
31: [13 March 1894], GUW #07787.
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