UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Seymour, Standing

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1898.405)
Number: 10
Date: 1857/1858
Medium: etching
Size: 98 x 67 mm
Signed: 'J. W.' at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.6; M.5; T.-
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)

PUBLICATION

It was not published.

EXHIBITIONS

Seymour, Standing was only exhibited once in Whistler's lifetime, in a print dealer's show, at H. Wunderlich & Co., New York in 1898. (Graphic with a link to impression #K0060102). 5

After Whistler's death, another impression was shown in the London Memorial Exhibition of 1905 (probably Graphic with a link to impression #K0060001). 6

5: New York 1898 (cat. no. 293).

6: London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 362).

SALES & COLLECTORS

It is likely that the etching was kept within the family, and not sold by Whistler. One impression, the second state, was owned by Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910) and sold through H. Wunderlich & Co., with the help of Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938), to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (Graphic with a link to impression #K0060102). The first state, according to collection records, was owned by Haden's brother, and was eventually, in 1939, acquired by the Library of Congress (Graphic with a link to impression #K0060001).