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Annie |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.230) | |
| Number: | 7 | |
| Date: | 1857/1858 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 119 x 81 mm | |
| Signed: | 'J.W' at lower left (1-2); 'Whistler' lower right (2); both removed (3); 'Whistler' lower left (4-final) | |
| Inscribed: | 'Imp. Delatre. Rue St. Jacques. 171.' at lower right (4-final); 'Annie' at bottom (6-final) | |
| Set/Publication: | 'French Set', 1858 | |
| No. of States: | 7 | |
| Known impressions: | 55 | |
| Catalogues: | K.10; M.8; T.10; W.15 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (55) | ||
PUBLICATION
).EXHIBITIONS
It was seen in public exhibitions, such as in Philadelphia in 1879, and in private clubs, such as the Union League Club in New York in 1881, to which Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) lent two impressions, one described as a 'Trial proof, only one' and one of the published state (
, ). 8 An early trial proof impression was shown at the Glasgow International Exhibition, 1888, lent by Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924) (). 9 It appeared in print dealer's shows, particularly at H. Wunderlich's & Co. (1898) and F. Keppel & Co. (1902) in New York. 10
7: Liverpool 1874 (cat. no. 510); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
8: Philadelphia 1879 ; New York 1881 (cat. nos. 22, 23).
9: Glasgow 1888 (cat. no. 2552-8)
10: New York 1898 (cat. no. 14); New York 1902 .
, ) lent impressions to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900. 11
11: Chicago 1900 (cat. nos. 15, 15a).
12: New York 1904a (cat. no. 16) ; Boston 1904 (cat. no. 9); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 15); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 296)
SALES & COLLECTORS
) in the summer of 1859 through Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910), to whom he wrote on 20 June: 'I enclose two drafts on Liverpool amounting to £63 sterling and as requested by you, for the etchings - they arrived in good order and are considered very fine, doing Jemmy great credit, I hope he will get up another sett' [sic]. 13
13: GUW #07079.
). 14 Haden's brother, Charles Sydenham Haden (1822-1898) also owned an impression, which was acquired years after his death by Margaret Selkirk Watson Parker (1867-1936) () and bequeathed to the University of Michigan. Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878) bought a set from Whistler, including Annie () which was given by his heirs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 14: V&A, Register for Prints, p. 33.
), two impressions from 'Mr Thomas' - probably Edmund Thomas (1842-1883) on 13 July 1872 (, ), and a first state in 1885 (). Another first state may have been given by the artist to Charles L. Drouet (1836-1908), and was later bought by Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) and signed by Whistler about 1873 (). Avery also bought a final, seventh state, which was inscribed by the artist (); both of these eventually went with Avery's collection to New York Public Library, where they were joined by a sixth state from the Royal Collection (). James Anderson Rose (1819-1890) had two states of Annie, shown in a travelling exhibition in 1874 and sold at Sotheby's in a three-day sale from 27 June 1876 (lots 656-7). Also in 1876, at the sale of the collection of Philippe Burty (1830-1890), an early state was sold for £3.0.0 and an impression on India paper (
), for £1.2.0. 15 The latter, a third state, went to Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924) and was later sold through H. Wunderlich & Co. to Clarence Buckingham (1855-1913) (). Whistler himself sold an impression of 'Annie standing' to Charles Augustus Howell (1840?-1890), in the following year for £2.2.0. 16
17: World, London, 8 August 1888 (GUL PC 10/17).
). 18
18: Sotheby's, 22 April 1887 (lot 174) and 3 March 1893 (lots 57, 58); Christie's, 8-9 March 1892 (lot 298).
); fourth, sixth and final states, also originally from the Haden collection, from Wunderlich's in 1898 (, , ); and finally a second state from F. Keppel & Co. in 1903 ().). The Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, bought one from Obach & Co., in 1907 for £3.0.0 (). Albert Henry Wiggin (1868-1951) bought another for Boston Public Library (). One was given by Mrs T. H. Riches to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in 1923 (). Early collectors included Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) () whose collection passed to the Art Institute of Chicago; Harry Brisbane Dick (1855-1916), whose prints passed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (, ); Thomas Jefferson Coolidge jr (1863-1912) and Pauline Kohlsaat Palmer (1882-1956) (); MacGeorge, Coolidge and Buckingham (). F. Keppel & Co. gave a sixth state to Cleveland Museum of Art in 1918 ().