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Piccadilly |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46893) | |
| Number: | 256 | |
| Date: | 1886 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 111 x 70 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 11 | |
| Catalogues: | K.256; M.252; W.208 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (11) | ||
PUBLICATION
Piccadilly was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
It was exhibited at two print dealer's shows, at Obach & Co. in London and H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York, in 1903. 8
An impression was shown by the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and Messrs Ernest Brown & Phillips lent one to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 9
An impression was shown by the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and Messrs Ernest Brown & Phillips lent one to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 9
8: New York 1903 (cat. no. 256); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
9: New York 1904a (cat. no. 216); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 208).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler sold three impressions of Piccadilly to the London print dealers, Messrs Dowdeswell, on 27 July and 26 September 1887 at £4.4.0 each. 10 He must have overestimated the appeal of this tiny, minimalist plate, for it did not sell well, and he retained four impressions (
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, , , ).At the auction of the collection of the late Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) at Sotheby's on 3 March 1892 (lot 310) one impression sold for only £1.10.0 to the print dealer Edmund F. Deprez (1851-1915) of Deprez & Gutekunst. A few years later, in the summer of 1897, H. Wunderlich & Co. bought one from Whistler at a fairly low price, £3.3.0. 11
Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) owned one, which was signed on the tab with a butterfly about 1887 (). Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought one in 1902 from Obach & Co. (). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) owned another impression, which was sold through A. A. Hahlo & Co., New York, to Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937) in 1919, and was bought by the Library of Congress.
Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) owned one, which was signed on the tab with a butterfly about 1887 (
). Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought one in 1902 from Obach & Co. (). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) owned another impression, which was sold through A. A. Hahlo & Co., New York, to Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937) in 1919, and was bought by the Library of Congress.11: A/c., September 1897, GUW #07287.