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Flaming Forge

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(54936)
Number: 490
Date: 1901
Medium: etching
Size: 192 x 154 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 16
Catalogues: K.-; M.-; T.-; W.-
Impressions taken from this plate  (16)

PUBLICATION

It was never published.

EXHIBITIONS

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

SALES & COLLECTORS

This etching was not listed by E.G. Kennedy or any other cataloguer. It was printed after Whistler's death in a limited edition by Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956). 10 Most impressions are in the Hunterian Art Gallery.

10: See Hopkinson 2009c[more], p. 66.

As far as is known this was not sold during Whistler's lifetime. A few impressions were exchanged or sold as duplicates by the Hunterian Art Gallery; one such, for instance, is in Boston Public Library ().