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The Open Book |  Hunterian Art Gallery (49940) | |
| Number: | 89 | |
| Date: | 1861 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 152 x 115 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | '1861' at lower right | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 17 | |
| Catalogues: | K.84; M.79 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (17) | ||
PUBLICATION
It was published in an album of Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by The Fine Art Society, London, 1879.
EXHIBITIONS
No exhibition is known in Whistler's lifetime. After his death, one impression was shown at the Whistler Memorial exhibition in London in 1905. 4
4: London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 387).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Surviving impressions are almost all still in the album of cancelled impressions. For instance, the British Museum bought an album in 1887 (
), and Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought a set from Knoedler & Co. in 1893 (). Thomas Glen Arthur (1858-1907) also acquired a set in 1887 () which later went to Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) owned two sets, probably acquired with the plates (, ) which were given to the University of Glasgow.
), and Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought a set from Knoedler & Co. in 1893 (). Thomas Glen Arthur (1858-1907) also acquired a set in 1887 () which later went to Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) owned two sets, probably acquired with the plates (, ) which were given to the University of Glasgow.