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#179. Herring Fleet.

7.5 x 11, etching on paper. "Gilbert Munger 1879" etched lower left in image; "Herring Fleet" lower center in pencil below image in one example, "Gilbert Munger sc" another; "Gilbert Munger" signed in pencil lower right below image; paper size is 10 x 14. William Foulger of the Stornoway Historical Society confirms that this etching depicts the herring fleet at Stornoway, Scotland. Munger painted there in 1878 and exhibited a painting called Herring Fleet in 1879 at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Ten examples have been found.

Bought at a flea market in Chicopee MA in 2000. The seller said it was from newscaster Lowell Thomas' estate, whose great grandfather had got it from Munger. Fine Art Society, London, label on the back.
From a home on Nantucket Island MA in 2002. Gift to the Madison (CT) Historical Society in 2022.
Offered at an auction of items from the studio of the artist Solon Borglum; then sold on EBay in 2004.
Reportedly bought at a Newburyport MA flea market about 25 years ago.
Sold by H. R. Mowbray & Co Ltd of Oxford UK in the 1920s, passed by descent to the UK owner.
Found in a central CT attic. Sold for $200 at New Egg Auction's Plantsville CT sale of 17 Sep 2022, lot 111.
Been in a Pittsburgh PA family for "at least 75 years."
Rescued from the trash by a New Jersey collector sometime between 1995 and 2005.
From the home of William Mansfield Clark (1884-1964) in Lakeville CT, by descent to his great grandson.
Gifted by Ella Winthrop Saltonstall to the New York Metropolitan Art Museum in 1939.

A lot offered at a 1925 Philadelphia auction is likely an example of this etching. QFD Pl.47.Tweed 2003 Exhibition n.49. Image from author's transparency.

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