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After the Sale, Clothes Exchange, Houndsditch |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46907) | |
| Number: | 357 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 127 x 177 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 5 | |
| Catalogues: | K.294; M.289 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (5) | ||
PUBLICATION
After the Sale, Clothes Exchange, Houndsditch was not published. However, it forms one of Whistler's unpublished but clearly defined 'Houndsditch Set'.
EXHIBITIONS
It was very rare and rarely exhibited. It was first exhibited with the print dealer, H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898 and later an impression appeared in the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900, lent by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) (
). 9
It also appeared in Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, in the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and in the London Memorial show in 1905. 10
). 9
It also appeared in Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, in the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and in the London Memorial show in 1905. 10
9: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 278); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
10: New York 1904a (cat. no. 303); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 282).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler sold an impression on 29 June 1888 to H. Wunderlich & Co. of New York for £8.8.0, and he apparently sold them another in 1899 for £7.7.0. 11 One of these went to Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) (). Other collectors included Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937) () and later, Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) ().
Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) inherited several impressions from Whistler, one of which she sold to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1904 () and one she bequeathed to the University of Glasgow ().
). Other collectors included Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937) () and later, Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) ().Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) inherited several impressions from Whistler, one of which she sold to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1904 (
) and one she bequeathed to the University of Glasgow ().