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Bibi Valentin | ||
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
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EXHIBITIONS
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Both Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (possibly
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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) (
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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
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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).
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16: Sotheby’s, 3 March 1892 (lots 74 and 75).
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17: Christie’s, 8-9 March 1892 (lot 295).