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Portrait of Whistler |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.208) | |
| Number: | 5 | |
| Date: | 1857 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 118 x 80 mm | |
| Signed: | 'J. W.' at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 3 | |
| Catalogues: | K.7; M.9; T.-; W.1 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (3) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). It was exhibited beside Annie Haden, with books () with the comment, in the catalogue, 'The only impressions known of these two plates, which are earlier than 1858'; this was correct in respect to Annie Haden, with books, but not with regard to the self-portrait, since three impressions are known. 11
H. Wunderlich & Co. of New York exhibited this rare etching in 1898. One impression was lent by Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932) to the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. 12 A few years later, in 1900, Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) lent both an untrimmed (
) and a trimmed impression () to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club, also in Chicago. 13 After Whistler's death, an impression was shown in the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and in the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 14
11: New York 1881 (cat. nos. 1, 2); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS
12: New York 1898 (cat. no. 1); Chicago 1893 (cat. no. 2224).
13: Chicago 1900 (cat. nos. 1, 1a).
14: New York 1904a (cat. no. 1); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 1).
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