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Speke Hall |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.403) | |
| Number: | 140 | |
| Date: | 1875 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 178 x 302 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 3 | |
| Catalogues: | K.143; M.141 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (3) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
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It was also shown in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death. In New York, two states were shown at the Grolier Club in 1904, one a second state lent by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (
), and another impression was lent from the Royal Collection in London in 1905. (). 7
6: New York 1881 (cat. no. 82); Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 82). See REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
7: New York 1904a (cat. nos. 90, 90b); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 269).
SALES & COLLECTORS
).) was sold through H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1898 to Freer and bequeathed by him to the Freer Gallery of Art..); it was lent by King Edward VII to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 8 It was later owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), then Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), and was eventually given by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949.8: 19/22 October 1877, GUW #12736; London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 269).