UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The Little Hat was not published.

It was first shown in a print dealer's exhibition, at H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898, and later at Obach & Co. in London in 1903. 9 Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) lent one to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club show in Chicago in 1900 (). 10

After Whistler's death, an impression also appeared in the comprehensive Grolier Club show in New York in 1904, and John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) lent another to the Whistler Memorial show in London in 1905. 11

The first sale of what Whistler called simply 'Hat' was to the London print dealer Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832) on 17 November 1887 for £6.6.0, and during the next two years Whistler sold impressions to Roland F. Knoedler (1856-1932) and the Fine Art Society, London, at £6.6.0 each. 12 One of these was almost certainly sold by the F.A.S. to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), given that 'Little Hat' is numbered '18' in the F.A.S. account, and Freer's impression is numbered '18' on the verso (). 13

Wunderlich's of New York wrote to Whistler on 3 May 1888 with a 'List of Etchings forwarded to Mr Ross Winans 1217 St Paul St. Balt[imore] Md.' that included 'The Little Hat', priced at £6.6.0. The collector was Ross Revillon Winans (1850-1912), a relative of Whistler's. In 1897 Wunderlich's (by then Whistler's principal American dealers) wrote that they had one 'Little hat' in stock, and in 1900, that ''The little hat' had been sold for £4.4.0. 14 It is likely that the later sale was to Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) ().

On 8 June 1903, shortly before Whistler's death, one was sold for a much higher price - £10.10.0 - to Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) the London print dealer. 15

Finally, after Whistler's death in 1903 two impressions were inherited by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) who bequeathed them to the University of Glasgow (, ).