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Object Details

• Artist

  James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

• Label

  Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonne," by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G179 state 1 of 1.

• Provenance

  Bertrand Buchanan MacGeorge (circa 1845 - 1924), Glasgow, Scotland [1]

  To 1903

  H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, NY, to 1903 [2]

  From 1903 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from H. Wunderlich & Co., through Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938), in 1903 [3]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

  Notes:

  [1] An undated folder sheet note in the object file states "Oblong stamp--BM--on the back" (see Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record). Bertrand Buchanan MacGeorge's Whistler collection "was sold in 1902 to H. Wunderlich and Co." (according to The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, University of Glasgow).

  [2] See Original Whistler List, Etchings, Voucher No. 10, March 1903, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

  [3] See note 2.

  [4] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Whistler and the Thames (December 17, 2000 to June 17, 2001)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Bertrand Buchanan MacGeorge (ca. 1845-1924)

  H. Wunderlich & Co. (1874-1912) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  United States

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Print

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1880s, 1860s

• Name

  MacGeorge, Bertrand Buchanan, Freer, Charles Lang, H. Wunderlich & Co.

• Place

  United States

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Boats and boating, Art, American Art, Etching (printing process), Church buildings

• Culture

  Americans

• Object Type

  Prints