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The Slipper |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46715) | |
| Number: | 43 | |
| Date: | 1859 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 120 x 80 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler -' at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 26 | |
| Catalogues: | K.28; M.28; T.29; W.29 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (26) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
, ) and one by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900.
20
Impressions were for sale in print dealer's shows, for instance at H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898 and 1903, and at Obach & Co. in London in 1903. In both Obach's and Wunderlich's, first and second states were on show, showing the radical reworking of the etching. 21 At Wunderich's in 1898, both impressions were bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (
, ).Finally, impressions were shown after Whistler's death in the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and the London Memorial show (lent by King Edward VII) in 1905. 22
19: Liverpool 1874 (cat. no. 518).
20: New York 1881 (cat. nos. 43-44); Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 29).
21: New York 1898 (cat. no. 28). See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
22: New York 1904a (cat. no. 31); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 29).
SALES & COLLECTORS
, , ). Similarly, impressions of both states were bought in the 1870s by Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) (, ) and in 1898, impressions from the collection of the sitter's husband, Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910), were bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) from Wunderlich's (, ).23: Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 76), 15 December 1896 (lot 268); Christie's, 17-22 February 1897 (lot 53).
); Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) by 1881 (, ); George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909) (); Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (); Mrs T. H. Riches (dates unknown) (); Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) (); Harry Brisbane Dick (1855-1916) () and Charles Deering (1852-1927) ().