Dieppe |  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1949.5.265) | |
| Number: | 251 | |
| Date: | 1885 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 51 x 83 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 5 | |
| Catalogues: | K.246; M.244; W.202 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (5) | ||
PUBLICATION
Dieppe was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
Dieppe was first shown among a group of forty etchings by Hogarth & Son in London in 1887. 8 One art critic wrote approvingly of this 'tiny plate' and other recent etchings of Chelsea shops. 9
Impressions were shown by H. Wunderlich & Co., New York in 1898 and 1903. Both Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) and Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent impressions to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900: (
) and (). 10
After Whistler's death, impressions were shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 11
Impressions were shown by H. Wunderlich & Co., New York in 1898 and 1903. Both Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) and Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent impressions to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900: (
) and (). 10 After Whistler's death, impressions were shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 11
8: London Hogarth 1887. See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
9: Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Etchings', The Standard, London, 3 March 1887 (GUL PC7/18-19).
10: Chicago 1900 (cat. nos. 179, 179a).
11: New York 1904a (cat. no. 210); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 202).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler sold an impression on 18 April 1893 to the Fine Art Society, London art dealers, for £2.2.0. 12
He also sold impressions in 1897 and in 1900 to H. Wunderlich & Co. of New York for £3.3.0. 13 One of these probably went to Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) () and another possibly to Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (). These went eventually to the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC (the latter a gift of Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971)).
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought an impression from Obach & Co., London, in December 1903 (). One impression owned by Ralph Harmon Booth (1873-1931) was acquired by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) and bought eventually by the Library of Congress (). Another was given by Atherton Curtis (1863-1944) to the Cabinet des estampes, Bibliothèque nationale de France in 1943 ().
) and another possibly to Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (). These went eventually to the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC (the latter a gift of Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971)). Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought an impression from Obach & Co., London, in December 1903 (
). One impression owned by Ralph Harmon Booth (1873-1931) was acquired by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) and bought eventually by the Library of Congress (). Another was given by Atherton Curtis (1863-1944) to the Cabinet des estampes, Bibliothèque nationale de France in 1943 ().