Barges, Dordrecht |  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) | ||
The copper plate has not been located. It was close in size to another Dordrecht subject, The Little Wheelwright's [261] and also similar to two London subjects dating from about 1886 (The Seamstress [253],
The Bonnet-Shop [254]) and several 1887 plates (Church Door, Edgware [291],
The Abbey Jubilee [296], Children's Fruit Barrow [347]).
It was probably printed after Whistler's death by Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938). In a draft catalogue of Whistler's etchings, Joseph Pennell (1860-1926) wrote that Menpes owned the plate. 6
According to the Freer Gallery of Art records, their impression of Boats, Dordrecht - which was not cancelled or damaged - originally bore a note by Freer reading 'Erased April 25th, 1924.' (
).
According to the Freer Gallery of Art records, their impression of Boats, Dordrecht - which was not cancelled or damaged - originally bore a note by Freer reading 'Erased April 25th, 1924.' (
).6: J. Pennell, n.d., draft catalogue, Library of Congress, Pennell Collection, Box. 353.
The plate was printed posthumously and was cancelled or damaged by corrosion or acid along the bottom edge.