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Lady in an armchair |  Freer Gallery of Art (1893.75) | |
| Number: | 91 | |
| Date: | 1861 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 230 x 153 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | '1861.' at lower right | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 19 | |
| Catalogues: | K.79; M.80 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (19) | ||
PUBLICATION
It was published in an album of Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by The Fine Art Society, London, 1879.
EXHIBITIONS
Lady in an armchair has never been exhibited.
SALES & COLLECTORS
Sets including the cancelled impression of Lady in an armchair were bought by several collectors. George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909) bought a set, which passed eventually to the Baltimore Museum of Art (
). The British Museum acquired a set in 1887 (). Another was acquired in the same year, 1887, by Thomas Glen Arthur (1858-1907) (). Yet another was sold at the Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840- d.1892) sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1889 (lot 787 or 789), and bought by the London print dealer Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) for £0.6.0; it was later acquired by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who bequeathed it to the University of Glasgow, 1958 ().
). The British Museum acquired a set in 1887 (). Another was acquired in the same year, 1887, by Thomas Glen Arthur (1858-1907) (). Yet another was sold at the Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840- d.1892) sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1889 (lot 787 or 789), and bought by the London print dealer Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) for £0.6.0; it was later acquired by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who bequeathed it to the University of Glasgow, 1958 ().
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought a set in 1893 from Knoedler & Co., which he bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art (). J. Littauer (fl. 1896) of Munich sold another set to the Hamburger Kunsthalle, in 1896 (). In Paris, Alfred Strölin (dates unknown) sold a fine set to Jacques Doucet (1853-1929) in 1907, which he gave to the Bibliothèque Jacques Doucet in 1918 ().
). J. Littauer (fl. 1896) of Munich sold another set to the Hamburger Kunsthalle, in 1896 (). In Paris, Alfred Strölin (dates unknown) sold a fine set to Jacques Doucet (1853-1929) in 1907, which he gave to the Bibliothèque Jacques Doucet in 1918 ().