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The Music Room |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46721) | |
| Number: | 39 | |
| Date: | 1859 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 147 x 217 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 54 | |
| Catalogues: | K.33; M.31; T.22; W.26 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (54) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
) and another impression, with 'Very much work added' () to the Union League Club show of 1881 in New York. 7
7: New York 1881 (cat. no. 39-40).
) 8 Impressions were on sale at print dealers' shows in New York, at H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1898 and 1903, and in London at Obach & Co. in 1903.8: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 26); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
9: New York 1904a (cat. no. 28); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 26); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. ?).
SALES & COLLECTORS
). Haden also owned a fairly heavily inked impression of the second state, which was bought from H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, through Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in November 1898 and later bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art ().) and one much darker (), and a selectively wiped impression of the second state () were sold to the British Museum by Percy Thomas (1846-1922) on 13 July 1872. 10
Arthur Haythorne Studd (1863-1919) bequeathed a rather murky impression of the second state to the same Museum in 1929 ().A dark and dramatic impression of the first state was given by William Loring Andrews (1837-1927) to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1883 (
). An impression with much lighter plate tone was given by Gardiner Greene Hubbard (1822-1897) to the Library of Congress, Washington, DC in 1898 (). Another dark, atmospheric impression was sold by Obach & Co. to the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, in 1902, for £9.0.0 (). A darkened first state () and a rich impression of the second state (), so dark as to obscure some details, were owned by Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), and passed with his collection to New York Public Library.10: B.M. Print Room Register of Purchases... 1872.
11: 23 March 1881 (lot 189).
At the Sotheby's sale of the important collection of the late Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) in 1892, a heavily inked 'first state' fetched only £0.10.0 (
); it was later acquired by Ernest Stephen Lumsden (1883-1968), whose widow sold it to the National Gallery of Scotland. 13
12: Sotheby's, 22-3 April 1887 (lots 180, 401); 28 February 1890 (lot 477); 15 December 1896 (lot 267).
13: 3 March 1892 (lot 72) bought by 'Russell'.