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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) |
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'A Sketch in St James's Park' (1886, Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921)). 2
'Park, Sketch in St James'' (1887, Dowdeswell's). 3
'The Park' (1887, Whistler). 4
'In the Park, London' (1898, Wunderlich's). 5
'Battersea Park' (1903/1935, possibly Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958)). 6
'St James's Park' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 7
Although Whistler's preferred title appears to have been 'The Park', the more specific title used by Mansfield, 'St James's Park' is clearer. The scene is St James's Park, not Battersea, so Miss Birnie Philip was wrong.
2: Wedmore 1886 A (cat. no. 207).
3: Whistler to Dowdeswell, 27 July 1887, GUW #08677.
4: Whistler to T. McLean, 5 October 1887, GUW #13014.
5: New York 1898 (cat. no. 215).
6: Envelope containing copper plate, Hunterian Art Gallery.
7: Mansfield 1909 (cat. no. 251).
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8: Charles Dicken (Jr), Dickens's Dictionary of London, London, 1879.
9: 1850,0223.432. See http://www.britishmuseum.org/ research/ search_the_collection_database
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