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Gray's Inn Place |  Freer Gallery of Art (1906.121) | |
| Number: | 281 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 127 x 177 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 6 | |
| Catalogues: | K.297; M.292 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (6) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
and ) 7
After Whistler's death, it was shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904. Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent to the Whistler Memorial show in Boston in 1904 (
) and John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) to the London Memorial Exhibition in 1905. 8
7: Chicago 1900 (cat. nos. 245, 245a); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
8: New York 1904a (cat. no. 307); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 201); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 285 ).
SALES & COLLECTORS
It did not get near this price at auction. An impression from the collection of the late Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) was bought at Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 336) by Edmund F. Deprez (1851-1915) of Deprez & Gutekunst for £2.15.0.
) and Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) (), who bought impressions of the first state; Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), whose etching was inscribed by the artist 'Specially chosen. /1st. State' but is actually the second state (); Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) (); and W. H. Bustin (fl. 1958wn), whose impression is inscribed 'No. 3' (). Benedict's first state was later bought by William P. Chapman, jr, who bequeathed it to Cornell University; he valued it at $585.00 and noted, quite rightly, it was 'rare'. 12
12: Archives of Cornell University Art Gallery.