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Bibi Valentin |  Freer Gallery of Art (1892.8) | |
| Number: | 34 | |
| Date: | 1859 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 152 x 228 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | '1859.' at lower left | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 44 | |
| Catalogues: | K.50; M.50; T.26; W.28 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (44) | ||
PUBLICATION
) but it may have come from another source at a later date.EXHIBITIONS
). 9
Both Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (possibly
) and Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) () lent impressions to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900. 10 Furthermore in 1904 Mansfield lent an ordinary impression and a counterproof (which has not been located) to the Boston Whistler Memorial show, and it was probably he who lent a similar combination to the Grolier Club exhibition in New York in the same year. 11
Impressions were also shown by print dealers, by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898 - when one was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (
) - and 1903, and by Obach & Co. in London in 1903. 12
Impressions were then shown in the principal Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, in Paris and London in 1905. 13
8: Liverpool 1874 (cat. no. 485).
9: New York 1881 (cat. no. 42).
10: Chicago 1900 (cat. nos. 28, 28a).
11: Boston 1904 (cat. nos. 23, 24); New York 1904a (cat. nos. 30, 30c).
12: New York 1898 (cat. no. 27). See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
13: London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 28); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 304).
SALES & COLLECTORS
). Another impression was bought in the 1870s by Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) (). The British Museum acquired its second state from Percy Thomas (1846-1922) in 1872 (). 14 H. Stewart Cundell noted it as among 'remarkable works' in the 'scanty collection of modern etchings in the British Museum.' 15
14: B.M. Register of Purchases ... 1872.
15: Anon., [H. Stewart Cundell], 'English Etching', The Standard, London, 25 April 1878, p. 2 (GUL PC1/94).
). Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910) had owned an early impression, which was also bought by Freer, in 1898 () from Wunderlich's.16: Sotheby’s, 3 March 1892 (lots 74 and 75).
) and another to John W. Beatty, Jr, in May 1897 (). Finally he bequeathed one to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (). These may have been printed from the copper plate in the 1890s, when Keppel could have owned the plate.17: Christie’s, 8-9 March 1892 (lot 295).