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Reading a Book |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.343) | |
| Number: | 112 | |
| Date: | 1873/1874 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 127 x 77 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 18 | |
| Catalogues: | K.111; M.110; W.97 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (18) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). 9
The Grolier Club showed an impression of Freer's (probably
) after Whistler's death, in New York in 1904. One was also shown at the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 10
8: Glasgow 1888 (cat. no. 2552-21)
9: New York 1898 (cat. no. 92); New York 1903b (cat. no. 79); see REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
10: New York 1904a (cat. no. 103); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 97).
SALES & COLLECTORS
). It was bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) owned an impression of the second state, now in a private collection (). The third state has not been located.), and Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought a set from Knoedler & Co. in 1893 (). Thomas Glen Arthur (1858-1907) also acquired a set in 1887 () which later went to Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Boston Public Library likewise acquired a set (). Early owners included George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909) (). Finally, 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. ).11: Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1889 (lot 787 or 789).