UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Carpet Menders, Paris

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46646)
Number: 480
Date: 1897/1898
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 201 x 251 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.420; M.416; W.257
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)

PUBLICATION

It was not published.

EXHIBITIONS

Impressions were exhibited at least three times in Whistler's lifetime, first by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898; next, lent by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) to an exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 and to the first Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1902 (Graphic with a link to impression #K4200101). 11

After Whistler's death, impressions were shown at the Memorial Exhibitions in Boston, Paris, London, and Rotterdam, being lent to Boston by Mansfield, and to Rotterdam by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) (Graphic with a link to impression #K4200102). 12

11: New York 1898 (cat. no. 290); Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 223); Philadelphia 1902 (cat. no. 947 [257]).

12: London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 2570); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 408); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 184); Rotterdam 1906 (cat. no. 35).

SALES & COLLECTORS

In the summer of 1898 Whistler sold an impression of 'Carpet Menders - Paris -' to H. Wunderlich & Co. of New York for £10.10.0. 13

One impression has not been located, that owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) in 1909-1910 (Graphic with a link to impression #K4200101). Only two impressions have been located, one that stayed in the artist's studio, and was given by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) to the University of Glasgow (Graphic with a link to impression #K4200102), and another that was acquired - probably from Colnaghi's in the 1930s - by Margaret Selkirk Watson Parker (1867-1936), who left it to the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (Graphic with a link to impression #K4200103).

13: Wunderlich's to Whistler, 1898 Sales Report, 24 March 1899, GUW #07305.