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Exeter Street |  Hunterian Art Gallery (54892) | |
| Number: | 274 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 128 x 177 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 6 | |
| Catalogues: | K.280; M.275 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (6) | ||
PUBLICATION
Exeter Street was never published.
EXHIBITIONS
It was very rarely exhibited. One impression was shown by Obach & Co. in London in 1903 and was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (
). 6
After Whistler's death, an impression was exhibited at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) lent an impression to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 7
). 6
After Whistler's death, an impression was exhibited at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) lent an impression to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 7
6: London Obach 1903 (cat. no. 231); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
7: New York 1904a (cat. no. 312); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 287).
SALES & COLLECTORS
The first recorded sale was by Whistler to the New York print dealers, H. Wunderlich & Co., on 29 June 1888, for £10.10.0. 8 There was a query when an etching was listed by Wunderlich's in 1894, recorded as '? Exeter St Shop - Chelsea' at £10.10.0. 9 However, two were definitely sold by Whistler to the London print dealer Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) for £10.10.0 each on 24 December 1902. 10
Early collectors included Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (), Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) () and John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908). One impression was still in Whistler's studio at his death in 1903 and bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who bequeathed it to the University of Glasgow ().
Early collectors included Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (
), Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) () and John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908). One impression was still in Whistler's studio at his death in 1903 and bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who bequeathed it to the University of Glasgow ().