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Portrait of a man |  Art Institute of Chicago (1924.637) | |
| Number: | 73 | |
| Date: | 1860 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 229 x 154 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | '1860.' | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 30 | |
| Catalogues: | K.63; M.63; T.72; W.58 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (30) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). 32
31: Liverpool 1874 (cat. no. 483).
32: New York 1881 (cat. no. 81).
) - and in 1903. 33 Freer lent his impression, which was then called a 'trial proof', to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago, in 1900 (). 34
33: New York 1898 (cat. no. 55); Chicago 1893 (cat. no. 2219); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
34: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 53).
). 35
35: New York 1904a (cat. no. 59); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 51); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 58).
SALES & COLLECTORS
). 36 The British Museum bought another impression - reproduced below - in 1872 ().
36: V&A Register of Prints, p. 32.
). Whistler added:37: Whistler to S. P. Avery, [ca 7 July 1873], GUW #10628.
). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) complained to Whistler in 1890 that he did not have an impression; but eventually he acquired one (). 38 An impression from the extensive collection of the late Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) was sold at Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 109) and immediately bought by Edmund F. Deprez (1851-1915)
for £12.10.0. It was bought from Deprez & Gutekunst by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (), who bought another, originally from the collection of Seymour Haden, in 1898 from H. Wunderlich & Co. (). 38: 26 November 1890, GUW #03992.