Etchings Institutions search term: caxton club
Little Salute | ||
Number: | 210 | |
Date: | 1879/1880 | |
Medium: | drypoint | |
Size: | 82 x 210 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at lower right (3) | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 3 | |
Known impressions: | 10 | |
Catalogues: | K.220; M.217; W.190 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (10) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
'As for the lucubrations of Mr. Whistler, they come like shadows and will so depart, and it is unnecessary to disquiet one's self about them.' 5
5: London FAS 1883 (cat. no. 16).
There were very few exhibitions thereafter. Print dealers' shows included those by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1883 and 1903, Obach & Co. in London in 1903 and Frederick Keppel (1845-1912) of F. Keppel & Co. in New York in 1904. 8 Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) lent his impression to an exhibition held at the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 (

Others were shown after Whistler's death, two in the comprehensive show at the Grolier Club in 1904; one, lent by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), in the Whistler Memorial exhibition in Boston in 1904 (

6: 'Mr Whistler's Exhibition', Saturday Review, 24 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/32).
7: 'An Arrangement in White and Yellow', The Queen, 24 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/24).
8: See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
9: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 170).
10: New York 1904a (cat. nos. 192, 192b); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 148); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 190).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Other collectors included Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), who owned the first state (





