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The Fur Tippet: Miss Lenoir |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46952) | |
| Number: | 365 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 100 x 69 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 6 | |
| Catalogues: | K.334; M.330 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (6) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
) and Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent impressions to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900. 12 Impressions were also exhibited by the print dealers H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898 and 1903. 13
Another impression was included in the comprehensive Grolier Club exhibition of 1904, lent by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (
). Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) lent his impression to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 14
12: Chicago 1900 (cat. nos. 192a and 192).
13: New York 1898 (cat. no. 279); New York 1903b (cat. no. 223).
14: New York 1904a (cat. no. 334); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 309).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler listed another as '(12) Fur Tippet' in sales to H. Wunderlich & Co., at the same price, in April 1889. The firm noted that they still had one (called incorrectly 'Mrs. Lenoir') 'on hand' in 1897. However, this - or another impression - appears in an 1899 'Report of Sales' by Wunderlich's as 'Mrs. Lenoir' priced at £3.3.0, and the reduction in price, even allowing for their dealer's discount, is surprising. 16
A list of etchings on the back of a letter from Ernest George Brown (1853/1854-1915) in 1893 suggests that the Fine Art Society wanted two impressions of 'fur tippet', priced at £6.6.0 each, but it is not certain that they received them. 17
Freer bought an impression from Obach & Co. in London on 8 February 1904 (
). Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) owned one by 1900 () as did Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), but Mansfield's has not been identified. Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) acquired one later (). Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) inherited one impression (
), and commissioned an impression by Frederick Goulding (1842-1909) (), both of which she bequeathed to the University of Glasgow.