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Nora Quinn

Impression: Library of Congress
Library of Congress
(FP-XIX-W576, no. 333)
Number: 364
Date: 1887/1888
Medium: etching
Size: 218 x 129 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 3
Catalogues: K.333; M.329
Impressions taken from this plate  (3)

PUBLICATION

Nora Quinn was not published.

EXHIBITIONS

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime, but was shown in the comprehensive Memorial Exhibitions after his death including the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and the London Memorial in 1905. 6

6: New York 1904a (cat. no. 231); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 367).

SALES & COLLECTORS

Whistler sold one impression on 27 July 1888 to Knoedler & Co. for £6.6.0. 7 This was later given by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) to the National Gallery of Art (Graphic with a link to impression #K3330102).

7: Whistler to R.F. Knoedler, GUW #13660.

Whistler later sold another, on 6 April 1891, to H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, again for £6.6.0. 8 This may have been the impression (Graphic with a link to impression #K3330103), that was acquired by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) and later by Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), which is now in the Library of Congress.

8: GUW #13097.