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Wych Street, London |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46785) | |
| Number: | 176 | |
| Date: | 1877 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 216 x 139 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 12 | |
| Catalogues: | K.159; M.156; W.132 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (12) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). 15
In New York, impressions were shown by the print dealers, H. Wunderlich & Co., in 1898 and 1903. 16 The one exhibited in 1898 was probably that bought by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) and lent to the exhibition organised by Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 (
). 17
After Whistler's death, impressions were exhibited in the Whistler Memorial Exhibitions, at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and in Paris and London in 1905. The Royal Collection lent an impression to the Memorial Exhibition in London. 18
15: New York 1881 (cat. no. 142). See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
16: New York 1898 (cat. no. 112); New York 1903b (cat. no. 99).
17: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 117).
18: New York 1904a (cat. no. 135); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 345); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 132).
SALES & COLLECTORS
, ). One of these three was apparently returned on 17 November, but two days later Howell sold the other on Whistler's behalf for £1.1.0. The discrepancy in price is not explained. 19 These may have been the impressions acquired by Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938) and from him, through Obach & Co., by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1903 (, ).Whistler offered one among 'thirteen more beautiful proofs' of a selection of prints to another private collector, Alfred Chapman (1839-1917), in 1878 for £2.2.0, but it is not known if Chapman took it. 20 Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) owned an impression that, judging by the butterfly signature, dates from around 1878 (
). It was later owned by Clarence Buckingham (1855-1913) and passed from him to the Art Institute of Chicago.Early collectors included James Guthrie Orchar (1825-1888) (
); Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) (); Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (); Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) ; Margaret Selkirk Watson Parker (1867-1936) () and - a little later - Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) (, ).