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The Steps, Gray's Inn | ||
Number: | 282 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 67 x 179 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 7 | |
Catalogues: | K.295; M.290 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (7) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS

Impressions were also shown in the comprehensive Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and in London in the following year. 9
8: New York 1898 (cat. no. 200); Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 250); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
9: New York 1904a (cat. no. 304); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 283).
SALES & COLLECTORS
He definitely sold an impression as 'Steps Gray's Inn' to H. Wunderlich & Co. on 29 June 1888 for £6.6.0. 11 It was bought immediately, on 30 July 1889, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (

One impression was owned at various times by Alice C. Holden (m. 1889) and Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) before being acquired by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), who gave it to the National Gallery of Art (


