The Beach, Ostend | ||
Number: | 353 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 82 x 185 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 4 | |
Catalogues: | K.354; M.347 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (4) |
PUBLICATION
The Beach, Ostend was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) lent an impression to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 (
). 10
One was also shown after Whistler's death at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904. 11 No other shows have been recorded.
![Graphic with a link to impression #K3540104](../../images/etchlink.gif)
One was also shown after Whistler's death at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904. 11 No other shows have been recorded.
10: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 244).
11: New York 1904a (cat. no. 268).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler sold an impression of what he then called 'Beach' on 17 November 1887 to the London print dealer, Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832) for £5.5.0. 12 He sold another to H. Wunderlich & Co. of New York on 3 May 1888 for £4.4.0. 13 Then on 14 May he apparently sold Wunderlich's an impression for £5.5.0 (noted in their stockbook as £5.5.0 with 20% discount). 14 It is not entirely clear if this was a separate transaction. His last recorded sale was to the Fine Art Society, London, on 27 March 1889 for £5.5.0. 15
Of the extant impressions, one was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1906 (
) and the other by the Hamburger Kunsthalle (
). Posthumous impressions were commissioned by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who left two to the University of Glasgow (
,
).
Of the extant impressions, one was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1906 (
![Graphic with a link to impression #K3540104](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K3540111](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K3540110](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K3540105](../../images/etchlink.gif)
12: GUW #13016.
13: Wunderlich's to Whistler, #17, GUW #07158.
14: GUW #13659; stock book a14404.
15: Whistler to Ernest George Brown (1853/1854-1915), GUW #13000.