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Renaissance Window |  Freer Gallery of Art (1894.21) | |
| Number: | 417 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 179 x 128 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.390; M.391 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). 10
It was also exhibited in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death. Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent one - probably the first state, which has not been located (
) - to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition organised by the Copley Society in Boston in 1904 . 11 Two impressions were shown at the comprehensive Grolier Club exhibition in New York in 1904 and one in the Whistler Memorial show in London in 1905. 12
9: New York 1898 (cat. no. 245). See REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
10: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 311).
11: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 221).
12: New York 1904a (cat. no. 378a,b); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 340).
SALES & COLLECTORS
). Another was sold by Whistler through H. Wunderlich & Co., New York in 1899, mis-titled 'Rennaissance window Chienonceau', for £8.8.0. 14 This may have been the impression acquired by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916), who certainly owned one by 1900 (
). His impression went to the Art Institute of Chicago, while Freer bequeathed his to the Freer Gallery of Art.