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Perambulator, King's Road

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1902.108)
Number: 277
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 107 x 65 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.278; M.272
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)

PUBLICATION

Perambulator, King's Road was never published.

EXHIBITIONS

It was extremely rare and rarely exhibited. Impressions were shown in New York by the print dealers H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1898 and 1903. 9 It was also exhibited, after Whistler's death, in the comprehensive exhibition at the Grolier Club, New York, in 1904. 10 There is no record of exhibitions in Britain.

9: New York 1898 (cat. no. 181); New York 1903b (cat. no. 246).

10: New York 1904a (cat. no. 323).

SALES & COLLECTORS

On 11 February 1888 Whistler sold an impression for £5.5.0 to the London print dealer, Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832). Another impression was sold through Wunderlich's of New York to Ross Revillon Winans (1850-1912) on 3 May 1888. 11

Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought an impression from Obach & Co. in London in 1902 (Graphic with a link to impression #K2780102). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) probably bought his impression from Wunderlich's (Graphic with a link to impression #K2780105), for it has their account number ('a 26899') on the verso.

11: Whistler to T. M. McLean, GUW #13018. Wunderlich & Co. to Whistler, GUW #07158.