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Irving as Philip of Spain, No. 1 |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.267) | |
| Number: | 158 | |
| Date: | 1876/1877 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 228 x 153 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 6 | |
| Catalogues: | K.170; M.167; W.139 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (6) | ||
PUBLICATION
The Fine Art Society probably intended to include it in the set of cancelled plates published in 1879, but only one impression was taken (
) before it was withdrawn and Irving as Philip of Spain, No. 2
[159] substituted in the main edition.
) before it was withdrawn and Irving as Philip of Spain, No. 2
[159] substituted in the main edition.EXHIBITIONS
Only one exhibition of this rare drypoint is known during Whistler's lifetime, when it was shown in a print dealer's show, by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898, under the incorrect title, 'Irving as Charles the First'. 14
14: New York 1898 (cat. no. 118).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Charles Augustus Howell (1840?-1890) bought two impressions of 'Irving' (which could have been this drypoint and/or Irving as Philip of Spain, No. 2
[159])
for £1.1.0 and £3.3.0. 15
Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938) owned unique impressions of both the first () and second () states. The first was bought from Obach & Co., by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1903, and the second by Margaret Selkirk Watson Parker (1867-1936), possibly at the same time. A later state, possibly the fourth state, was acquired by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) and exhibited in Boston in 1910 as 'Irving as Philip of Spain, No. 1' (). 16
Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938) owned unique impressions of both the first (
) and second () states. The first was bought from Obach & Co., by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1903, and the second by Margaret Selkirk Watson Parker (1867-1936), possibly at the same time. A later state, possibly the fourth state, was acquired by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) and exhibited in Boston in 1910 as 'Irving as Philip of Spain, No. 1' (). 16
15: Howell to Whistler, [6-25 November 1877], GUW #02178.
16: Boston 1910 (cat. no. 115).