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| Number: | 311 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 133 x 97 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 18 | |
| Catalogues: | K.327; M.321; W.244 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (18) | ||
PUBLICATION
).EXHIBITIONS
) and Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) () both lent impressions to an exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900. 10
Impressions were also shown at the big Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, in Boston by the Copley Society in the same year, and, lent by King Edward VII, at the London Memorial in 1905 (
) . 11
9: New York 1898 (cat. no. 225); New York 1903b (cat. no. 193); London Obach 1903 (cat. no. 204).
10: Chicago 1900 (cat. nos. 320 and 212).
11: New York 1904a (cat. no. 257); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 177); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 244).
SALES & COLLECTORS
). Freer's receipts are dated 1 and 27 May 1889 - possibly he returned one impression and bought another. 13
) and other impressions by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) () and Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924) ().Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) inherited thirteen impressions from the artist and bequeathed them to the University of Glasgow, including two marked 'o' (
, ) which may have been a sign of quality.), came from the album originally presented to Queen Victoria, which was sold by King Edward VII through Agnew's in 1906, and bought from Obach & Co. by Freer, who sold it back to Miss Philip. She gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935. One impression was presented in an album similar to that given to Queen Victoria and was given by Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954) to the Art Institute of Chicago ().