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Jubilee Place, Chelsea |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46627) | |
| Number: | 276 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 143 x 222 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 7 | |
| Catalogues: | K.274; M.327 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (7) | ||
PUBLICATION
Jubilee Place, Chelsea was never published.
EXHIBITIONS
It was fairly rare and was rarely exhibited, although it was shown by the print dealers H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898 and 1903. 7
Impressions were also shown at the major Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death. Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), for instance, lent an impression to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905, and Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) lent one to a retrospective in Rotterdam in 1906 (
). 8
Impressions were also shown at the major Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death. Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), for instance, lent an impression to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905, and Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) lent one to a retrospective in Rotterdam in 1906 (
). 8
7: New York 1898 (cat. no. 182); New York 1903b (cat. no. 215); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
8: London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 295); Rotterdam 1906 (cat. no. 44).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler sold an impression of 'Jubilee Place - Chelsea' to the London art dealers, Messrs Dowdeswell, on 17 November 1888
and another on 16 February 1889 for £10.10.0 each. 9 Most sales took place in 1889. One was sold to H. Wunderlich & Co. for the same price on 16 April 1889; in August 1897 they still had one 'in hand'. 10 The artist sold impressions to Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) and to the Dutch art dealer Elbert Jan Van Wisselingh. (1848-1912) for £10.10.0 each in July 1889. 11 On
18 July 1889
Whistler still had one 'Jubillee [sic] Place'. 12 This was probably the one still in Whistler's studio at his death, which was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), and later - in 1935 - given by her to the University of Glasgow ().
At auction, the price was much lower, Edmund F. Deprez (1851-1915) of Deprez & Gutekunst buying an impression at Sotheby's on 3 March 1892 (lot 337) for £4.0.0.
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) failed to obtain an impression from the artist, instead buying an impression from Obach & Co., in London, a few days before Whistler's death in 1903 ().
).At auction, the price was much lower, Edmund F. Deprez (1851-1915) of Deprez & Gutekunst buying an impression at Sotheby's on 3 March 1892 (lot 337) for £4.0.0.
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) failed to obtain an impression from the artist, instead buying an impression from Obach & Co., in London, a few days before Whistler's death in 1903 (
).