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Balcony, Amsterdam | ||
Number: | 446 | |
Date: | 1889 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 272 x 169 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 4 | |
Known impressions: | 27 | |
Catalogues: | K.405; M.404; W.262 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (27) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
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11: London Dunthorne 1890 ; New York 1890a ; Brussels 1890 (cat. no. 1048).
12: The Academy, London, 20 May 1899, pp. 561-2; London ISSPG 1899 (cat. no. 239).
![Graphic with a link to impression #K4050314](../../images/etchlink.gif)
Other impressions were exhibited in America, first at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, lent by Walter Steuben Carter (1824-1904). 14 Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) bought the first proof, which he lent to an exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in 1900 (
![Graphic with a link to impression #K4050102](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K4050319](../../images/etchlink.gif)
Impressions also appeared in print dealer's shows, exhibited by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898, and by Obach & Co. in London in 1903.
It was shown in Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, in 1904 in Boston (lent again by W.S. Carter) and in New York (where three impressions were exhibited at the Grolier Club). 17 Others were shown in Paris in 1905, and, lent by the Board of Education, in London in 1905 (
![Graphic with a link to impression #K4050315](../../images/etchlink.gif)
13: See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
14: Chicago 1893 (cat. no. 2265 [1683]).
15: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 228).
16: Philadelphia 1902 (cat. no. 947 [262]).
17: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 189); New York 1904a (cat. nos. 282, a,b,c).
18: London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 262).
SALES & COLLECTORS
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19: [8 February 1890], GUW #10522.
However, at the price of £15.15.0 Whistler sold one impression direct to a collector, Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), on 4 March 1890. Whistler signed one impression ''4. / oo / chosen for / Chs. L. Freer' (
![Graphic with a link to impression #K4050302](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K4050207](../../images/etchlink.gif)
20: GUW #13039.
21: GUW #13065; Merrill 1995 , p. 67.
![Graphic with a link to impression #K4050208](../../images/etchlink.gif)
24: 10 November 1893, GUW #07223.
At the higher price, £15.15.0, Whistler sold an impression direct to the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) on 2 July 1890 (
![Graphic with a link to impression #K4050315](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K4050310](../../images/etchlink.gif)
Ten years later, in 1901, Whistler sold an assortment of eight etchings, including this one (
![Graphic with a link to impression #K4050314](../../images/etchlink.gif)
An impression was left in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) (
![Graphic with a link to impression #K4050311](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K4050303](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K4050311](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K4050203](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K4050319](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K4050z02](../../images/etchlink.gif)