Etchings Institutions search term: grolier club
St James's Park | ||
| Number: | 250 | |
| Date: | 1885 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 68 x 100 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 5 | |
| Catalogues: | K.255; M.251; W.207 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (5) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
After Whistler's death, an impression was exhibited in the comprehensive Grolier Club exhibition in New York in 1904 and one was lent by Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 13
12: New York 1898 (cat. no. 215); New York 1903b (cat. no. 167) London Obach 1903 (cat. no. 177).
13: New York 1904a (cat. no. 215); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 207).
SALES & COLLECTORS
). Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought an impression from F. Keppel & Co. in 1902 (
), which was bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art; and Harry Brisbane Dick (1855-1916) bought one, which passed after his death to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (
).Although about 1890 the artist noted that he had only one in stock, two impressions came with his estate to the University of Glasgow (
,
).
