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Nude Girl with Arms Raised |  Freer Gallery of Art (1893.88) | |
| Number: | 115 | |
| Date: | 1873/1878 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 191 x 100 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 18 | |
| Catalogues: | K.129; M.126 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (18) | ||
PUBLICATION
It was published in an album of Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by The Fine Art Society, London, 1879.
EXHIBITIONS
The only known exhibition was after Whistler's death, in the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 4
4: London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 385).
SALES & COLLECTORS
A cancelled set owned by the print dealer Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840- d.1892) was sold at Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1889 (lot 787 or 789) to Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851), who exchanged it with Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who bequeathed it to the University of Glasgow (
).
). Impressions were also acquired with the cancelled set by the British Museum in 1887 (); by Thomas Glen Arthur (1858-1907) in the same year (); by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) from M. Knoedler & Co. in 1893 (); Alfred Beurdeley (1847-1919) (); George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909) (); and Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937) ().
); by Thomas Glen Arthur (1858-1907) in the same year (); by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) from M. Knoedler & Co. in 1893 (); Alfred Beurdeley (1847-1919) (); George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909) (); and Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937) ().