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Tillie: A Model

Impression: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
(1949.5.540)
Number: 113
Date: 1873
Medium: drypoint
Size: 235 x 160 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 5
Known impressions: 6
Catalogues: K.117; M.116; W.102
Impressions taken from this plate  (6)

PUBLICATION

Tillie: A Model was never published. It may have been considered for publication in the Cancelled Set by the Fine Art Society in 1879 (Graphic with a link to impression #K1170501), but was not included in the final album.

EXHIBITIONS

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) lent an impression of the first state to the Union League Club in New York in 1881 (Graphic with a link to impression #K1170101). 10 Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910) bought another first state from the collection of James Anderson Rose (1819-1890), at auction on 30 June 1876 (Graphic with a link to impression #K1170102), and this was exhibited by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898 and sold to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent an impression to the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 (Graphic with a link to impression #K1170302) and to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in Boston in 1904. 11

10: New York 1881 (cat. no. 122). See REFERENCE : EXHIBITIONS.

11: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 96); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 80).

Two impressions were also shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and another one was lent by John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) to the Whistler Memorial show in London in 1905. 12

12: New York 1904a (cat. no. 108, 108b); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 102).

SALES & COLLECTORS

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) owned a second state, which was signed by Whistler in 1873 (Graphic with a link to impression #K1170101). James Anderson Rose (1819-1890) had a first state, which was sold at auction on 30 June 1876 and bought by Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910) (Graphic with a link to impression #K1170102); his collection went to H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898, when this proof was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) owned at least one impression (Graphic with a link to impression #K1170302). Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938) owned a unique impression worked over in ink washes, which was bought from Obach & Co. by Freer in 1904 (Graphic with a link to impression #K1170402).