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Palaces, Brussels |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46985) | |
| Number: | 338 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 222 x 142 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 16 | |
| Catalogues: | K.361; M.355; W.252 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (16) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). 8
An impression was lent by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) to the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and to an exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 (
). 9 Impressions were for sale in exhibitions by H. Wunderlich & Co., New York in 1893 and by Obach & Co. in London in 1903. 10
After the artist's death, impressions were shown at the Whistler Memorial Exhibitions, including the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and in Paris in 1905. Albert W. Scholle (1860-1917) lent to the Boston show of 1904, Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) to the London exhibition of 1905 (
) and Ernest Marsh (fl. 1935) to an exhibition in Rotterdam in 1906. 11
8: London RBA 1887-8 (cat. no. unknown).
9: Chicago 1893 (cat. no. 2251 [1676] ); Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 218).
10: See REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
11: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 180); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 252); Rotterdam 1906 (cat. no. 87).
SALES & COLLECTORS
) and it was bequeathed with the rest of his collection to the Freer Gallery of Art. The Knoedler impression was bought by Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) () and was later bequeathed by William P. Chapman Jr to Cornell University.), Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) (), Ralph King (1855-1926) and his wife (). ). Another was bought by Albert Henry Wiggin (1868-1951), for Boston Public Library (). A third (stock no. a 35389) was bought by Pauline Kohlsaat Palmer (1882-1956), and bequeathed by Arthur Macdougall Wood (d. 2007) to the Art Institute of Chicago ().16: GUW #13040.