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Mrs Leyland, Sr. |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.402) | |
| Number: | 123 | |
| Date: | 1874/1875 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 229 x 153 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 19 | |
| Catalogues: | K.103; M.104; W.227 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (19) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). 7 Later an impression was shown at the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900, lent by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (). 8
After Whistler's death, one was shown in the comprehensive exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904. 9 An impression was also shown at the Whistler Memorial exhibition in 1905. 10
7: New York 1898 (cat. no. 83).
8: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 197).
9: New York 1904a (cat. no. 101).
10: London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 227).
SALES & COLLECTORS
11: 9-11 November 1877, GUW #12738.
12: Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 145).
). Another was recorded by Kennedy in 1910 as owned by John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911), but has not been located (). 13 The third was acquired by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), and later, Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), and eventually returned home, being bought in 1987 by the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool ().13: Kennedy 1910 (cat. no. 103).
). Known cancelled impressions are almost all from, or still in, the album of cancelled plates. For instance, the British Museum bought an album in 1887 (), as did Thomas Glen Arthur (1858-1907) in 1887 () which later went to Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Boston Public Library also acquired a set (). A set acquired by J. Littauer, Munich, was sold to the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 1896 ().). She acquired another set, trimmed the impressions and stuck them on the envelopes containing the copper plates (i.e. ).14: Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1889 (lot 787 or 789).