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Maud, Standing |  Art Institute of Chicago (2007.145) | |
| Number: | 169 | |
| Date: | 1876-1878 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 228 x 152 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right (7-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 16 | |
| Known impressions: | 13 | |
| Catalogues: | K.114; M.113; W.99 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (13) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). 12
Others were for sale in exhibitions by print dealers, Obach & Co. in London (possibly
, and ) and H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1903. 13
Impressions also appeared in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, several states being shown at the comprehensive Grolier Club exhibition in New York in 1904, and individual prints lent by Thomas Jefferson Coolidge jr (1863-1912) to the Boston show in 1904 (
) and by Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) to the London Memorial in 1905. 14
12: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 93); see REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
13: New York 1903b (cat. no. 81); 'Whistler Etchings', Morning Post, 7 November 1903 (GUL PC 21/7).
14: New York 1904a (cat. nos. 105a, b, c, d); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 79); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 99).
SALES & COLLECTORS
, ). Freer bought another impression that had been in the collection of John Caldwell (fl. 1887-1907) in 1898 (). Another impression from two distinguished collections, those of Albert W. Scholle (1860-1917) and Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), was bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) (). A working proof of a later state was also bought by Rosenwald (), who gave both to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Other early collectors included Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924) and Thomas Jefferson Coolidge jr (1863-1912) () and Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) ().16: Morning Post, 26 October 1903 (GUL PC 21/6).