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The Barber's Shop, Chelsea |  Freer Gallery of Art (1905.338) | |
| Number: | 263 | |
| Date: | 1886 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 166 x 242 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 11 | |
| Catalogues: | K.271; M.268; W.229 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (11) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
11: Paris Exp. Univ. 1889 (cat. no. 419).
Both Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) and Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (
and ) lent impressions to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club, also in Chicago, in 1900. 13 An impression exhibited in Dresden in 1901 was bought by the Königl. Kupferstichkabinett after the show, and shown again in the following year (). Impressions were shown by the print dealers H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898 and 1903. 14
After Whistler's death, impressions were shown in the Memorial Exhibitions; for instance, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent to the Copley Society show in Boston in 1904 (
), King Edward VII, to the London Exhibition of 1905 () and Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) to one in Rotterdam in 1906 (). 15
12: 15 May 1893, GUW #04002; Chicago 1893 (cat. no. 2260).
13: Chicago 1900 (cat. nos. E199, 199a).
14: New York 1898 (cat. no. 183); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
15: Boston 1904 (cat. no.170); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 229); Rotterdam 1906 (cat. no. 61).
SALES & COLLECTORS
) on 16 April 1889. 16 This was later given by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) to the National Gallery of Art.), and Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) (at the reduced price of £10.10.0) on 21 February 1891. 18 Knowles' impression was later bequeathed by Guy John Fenton Knowles (1879-1959) to the Fitzwilliam Museum.). 19 In 1901, after the International Exhibition of Fine Arts in Dresden, he sold an assortment of eight prints (including ) to the Königl. Kupferstichkabinett in Dresden at the price of £50.0.0
for the lot. 20
An impression bought by the Royal Collection and lent to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition of 1905 (
) was sold through Agnew's and Wunderlich's in 1906 to Clarence Buckingham (1855-1913) whose heirs passed it to the Art Institute of Chicago. Harry Brisbane Dick (1855-1916) owned the '1st proof', and it went with his collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art ().21: Wunderlich's to Whistler, 6 April 1900, GUW #07322.
) and a first state probably shortly afterwards ().) and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) who gave it to the University of Glasgow (with the copper plate) in 1935.