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Binding the Hair |  Art Institute of Chicago (1927.5984) | |
| Number: | 334 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 133 x 95 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 4 | |
| Catalogues: | K.344; M.342 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (4) | ||
PUBLICATION
Binding the Hair was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
Being very rare it was rarely exhibited. It was first exhibited by the print dealers H. Wunderlich & Co., New York in 1898, and again in 1903. 5
Impressions were also shown after Whistler's death, at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and at the Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 6
Impressions were also shown after Whistler's death, at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and at the Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 6
5: New York 1898 (cat. no. 286); New York 1903b (cat. no. 220)
6: New York 1904a (cat. no. 331); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 305).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler sold impressions to H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, for £3.3.0 in September 1897 and in 1900. 7 One of these was bought by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) or Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937) (
). 8 The other might have been bought by Charles Deering (1852-1927) () or John Caldwell (fl. 1887-1907) () - the latter having also been owned at some time by Whittemore. Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought an impression from Obach & Co. in London in 1904
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). 8 The other might have been bought by Charles Deering (1852-1927) () or John Caldwell (fl. 1887-1907) () - the latter having also been owned at some time by Whittemore. Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought an impression from Obach & Co. in London in 1904
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