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Robert Barr

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(49931)
Number: 478
Date: 1894/1895
Medium: etching
Size: 112 x 90 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 9
Catalogues: K.App.4; M.app.5
Impressions taken from this plate  (9)

PUBLICATION

Robert Barr was never published.

EXHIBITIONS

It was not exhibited in Whistler's life time.

SALES & COLLECTORS

No sales of Robert Barr are recorded in Whistler's lifetime. Among impressions owned by public collections, one was acquired, probably from Sickert, by Edmond Gosselin (1849-1917) and ended up in the Hunterian Art Gallery (Graphic with a link to impression #KAp40102); the British Museum got one in 1908 (Graphic with a link to impression #KAp40103); the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin bought one from the Kunstsalon Emil Richter in 1910 (Graphic with a link to impression #KAp40111); the Victoria and Albert Museum acquired two, one from James Greig in 1922 (Graphic with a link to impression #KAp40109) and another from Silvia Gosse (1881-1968) in 1948 (Graphic with a link to impression #KAp40108); and Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) gave one to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943 (Graphic with a link to impression #KAp40104).