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Price's Candle Factory | ||
Number: | 166 | |
Date: | 1876/1877 | |
Medium: | drypoint | |
Size: | 153 x 229 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at lower right (6-8); replaced with new butterfly (9-final) | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 13 | |
Known impressions: | 19 | |
Catalogues: | K.154; M.151; W.124 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (19) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS

After Whistler's death impressions were shown in the major Memorial Exhibitions including one at the Grolier Club in New York, another in Boston in 1904, and one from the Royal Collection was lent to the Whistler Memorial show in London in 1905. 15
14: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 112); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
15: New York 1904a (cat. no. 128); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 95); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 124).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Although there is little evidence of sales in subsequent years, one impression was trimmed and signed by Whistler in 1881, possibly for Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) (


It is likely that all these impressions were trimmed and signed by Whistler at the time of sale, but the date of signing does not necessarily reflect the date of printing. The etching signed for Theobald, mentioned above, was a late state but was signed in 1881. On the other hand, an impression of the first state, presumably dating from 1877, was signed about 1886, and bought by Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) (




18: Whistler to Kennedy, [4 July 1892], GUW #09689.
Tracking these prints is not easy, though one first state with a Dowdeswell provenance was later owned by Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934), then Clarence Buckingham (1855-1913), and, finally the Art Institute of Chicago (



19: Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lots 203-208).