The Sail |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.16) | |
| Number: | 98 | |
| Date: | 1863 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 211 x 135 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 1 | |
| Catalogues: | K.157; M.154 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (1) | ||
PUBLICATION
It was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
Only one exhibition is known, a print dealer's show, at H.Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1903 when an impression from the collection of Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924) was sold to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (
). 5
). 5 5: New York 1903b (cat. no. 249).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Only one impression of this print is recorded. It may first have been owned by Messrs Dowdeswell, and was acquired by Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), around 1880. According to Kennedy, 'The butterfly was drawn by Whistler on this impression, after it was purchased from Mr Macgeorge.' 6 This impression was indeed signed with a pencil butterfly, which dates from about 1881. It was later owned by Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) and sold, after his death, at Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 322), when it was bought by Edmund F. Deprez (1851-1915) for the tiny sum of £0.16.0. In 1903 it was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) from Wunderlich's in New York () and bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, which now contains many of the rarest of Whistler's prints.
) and bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, which now contains many of the rarest of Whistler's prints.6: Kennedy 1910 (cat. no. 157).