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F. R. Leyland | ||
Number: | 121 | |
Date: | 1874/1875 | |
Medium: | etching, drypoint and open bite | |
Size: | 304 x 177 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
No. of States: | 2 | |
Known impressions: | 20 | |
Catalogues: | K.102; M.103; W.93 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (20) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
After Whistler's death an impression was lent to the Grolier Club exhibition in New York in 1904, and Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) lent an impression to the Whistler Memorial exhibition in London in the following year. 14
12: See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
13: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 88); Boston 1910 ; see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
14: New York 1904a (cat. no. 97); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 93).
SALES & COLLECTORS
15: Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 144).
Other cancelled impressions, often in the album in which they were originally published, were acquired by the British Museum in 1887 (); by Thomas Glen Arthur (1858-1907) in the same year (); by Freer from Knoedler & Co. in 1893 (); from J. Littauer by the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 1896 (); and by other collectors and collections including George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909) () and Walter M. Hill (1868-1952) ().
16: Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1889 (lot 787 or 789).