UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens, No. 2

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(49910)
Number: 444
Date: 1889/1890
Medium: etching
Size: 128 x 178 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.426; M.423
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)

PUBLICATION

The Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens, No. 2 was not published.

EXHIBITIONS

It was rarely exhibited, though an impression may have been lent by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 (Graphic with a link to impression #K4260103). The title given in the catalogue, 'The Terrace, Luxembourg', makes it difficult to be sure of this. 9

9: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. E275).

After Whistler's death, impressions were exhibited at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, lent by Freer (Graphic with a link to impression #K4260103) and the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 10

10: New York 1904a (cat. no. 352); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 377).

SALES & COLLECTORS

Whistler did sell an impression of an etching with the title 'The terrace Luxembourg' in May 1900 to Freer for £12.12.0 but it was probably not this etching but one with a similar title.

Freer bought an impression of The Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens, No. 2 on 2 September 1903 - after Whistler's death - from Obach & Co. in London (Graphic with a link to impression #K4260103). 11

The artist bequeathed an impression to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) in 1903, which she in turn bequeathed to the University of Glasgow (Graphic with a link to impression #K4260104).

11: June 1902, GUW #09089.