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The Piano | ||
Number: | 144 | |
Date: | 1875-1877 | |
Medium: | drypoint and open bite | |
Size: | 236 x 160 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at left (3-final) | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
No. of States: | 7 | |
Known impressions: | 26 | |
Catalogues: | K.141; M.139; W.117 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (26) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
H. Wunderlich & Co. had impressions for sale in exhibitions in New York in 1898 and in 1903. Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought the impression exhibited in 1898. Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent a 'Proof with the monogram' to the show organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 (
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11: New York 1881 (cat. no. 136). See REFERENCES EXHIBITIONS.
12: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 105).
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13: New York 1904a (cat. nos. 118a,b); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 88); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 338).
SALES & COLLECTORS
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14: Whistler to Alexander, [March/April 1875?], GUW #07573.
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15: Whistler to Howell, 12 October-5 November [1877], GUW #12735.
16: Whistler to Mansfield, GUW #13046.
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17: Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1889 (lot 787 or 789).