Charing Cross Bridge | ||
Number: | 348 | |
Date: | 1887/1888 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 133 x 97 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 5 | |
Catalogues: | K.310; M.306 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (5) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
Given the circumstances, most newspapers refrained from criticism. The Bazaar said Whistler's etching 'requires unbounding reverence of its author and the utmost imagination to unravel'. 12 Similarly, the Tablet commented, slightly ironically:
10: News of the World, 11 March 1888; Court and Society Review, 14 March 1888 (GUL PC9/70).
11: London RBA 1888a (cat. no. 262). Evening Post, London, 3 March 1888 (GUL PC9/73).
12: Bazaar, 16 March 1888 (GUL PC9/98).
After Whistler's death impressions were shown in the Memorial Exhibitions, at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and in Boston in 1904, and, lent by John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908), the London show in 1905. 15
14: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 284). See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
15: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 204); New York 1904a (cat. no. 317); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 293).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Meanwhile Knoedler & Co. bought an impression on 27 July for £6.6.0, and a year later, in July 1889, paid £8.8.0 for a second impression. 17 It was number 7 in the invoice of 27 July, and this number appears on an impression that passed eventually to Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) (), and which is reproduced below.
Knoedler's do not seem to have queried the raised price but Wunderlich's were not so accommodating. On 29 August 1888 Wunderlich's had ordered another two, which were sent on 15 September, priced at £8.8.0 each. 18 Wunderlich's promptly complained,
16: Dieterlen to Whistler, 3 May 1888, GUW #07158, and from Whistler, #13051; to Wunderlich, 14 May 1888, #13659 and 29 June 1888, #13052.
17: GUW #13660; #13240.
18: GUW #01764; #13053.
21: 8 October 1888, GUW #03501.
22: [August 1897], GUW #07289.
23: 27 March 1903, GUW #07340.