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Annie Haden |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46749) | |
| Number: | 67 | |
| Date: | 1860 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 357 x 217 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | '1860.' at lower left | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 17 | |
| Catalogues: | K.62; M.62; T.51; W.57 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (17) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
, ). 11
Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) made a substantial list of etchings for inclusion in the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. He then asked Whistler for any comments and Whistler suggested Annie Haden. Mansfield did his best to comply, including his own impression of Annie Haden (
), and wrote:10: London Pall Mall 1874 (cat. no. 50); Liverpool 1874 (cat. no. 487); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
11: New York 1881 (cat. nos. 79, 80).
12: 15 May 1893, GUW #04002; Chicago 1893 (cat. no. 2223).
). 13 In 1900 Whistler wrote directly to Kennedy about obtaining good impressions for the Exposition Universelle in Paris:13: New York 1898 (cat. no. 54); Chicago 1900 (cat. no. E052)
14: [12/15 February 1900], GUW #09799.
15: 10 February 1901, GUW #03190.
After Whistler's death, others were exhibited in the comprehensive exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and in the Whistler Memorial Exhibitions in London (lent by King Edward VII) and Paris in 1905. 17
16: Glasgow 1901 (cat. no. 239); Philadelphia 1902 (cat. no. 947 (57))
17: New York 1904a (cat. no. 58a-d); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 57); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 319)
SALES & COLLECTORS
). 18 Haden also kept both a first and a final state for his own collection. These were sold through Wunderlich's of New York in 1898 to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (). Freer had already bought a third state in 1892 (). 18: V&A Register of Prints, p. 32.
).19: [ca 7 July 1873], GUW #10628.
) and another, of the fourth state, possibly about 1875 (). ). 21 It was exhibited at the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905 and sold in 1906 through Thomas Agnew & Sons, London and Wunderlich & Co., New York, to Margaret Selkirk Watson Parker (1867-1936) ().). 22 In 1897 Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932) wrote to Whistler:22: Christie’s, 23 March 1881 (lot 194); Sotheby's, 23 April 1887 (lot 405); Sotheby’s, 3 March 1892 (lot 108).
23: 11 November 1897, GUW #07292.
); Albert Henry Wiggin (1868-1951)(); Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) and Emma Regina Martin (1921-2009) (); Henry Graves Jr. and Herbert Greer Finch ().). As he was told by David A. Kennedy (fl.1895-1915): 'Unfortunately the "Axenfeld" and "Annie Haden", from the Macgeorge Collection of etchings have been promised on this side. I'm sorry about this as I would like you to have them.' 24
It was in fact bought by Mansfield. One of the people who saw that impression at Wunderlich's was Robert Goodloe Harper Pennington (1854 or 1855-1920), who told Whistler:24: 10 February 1903, GUW #07339.