Etchings Institutions search term: wunderlich
Chancellerie, Loches |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46991) | |
| Number: | 411 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 271 x 166 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 7 | |
| Known impressions: | 14 | |
| Catalogues: | K.383; M.383 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (14) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
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Impressions were shown at an international exhibition in Wolverhampton in 1902 and at the Whistler Memorial show in London in 1905, probably lent on both occasions by Laurence W. Hodson (1864-1933). 13 Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) probably lent his impression on at least two occasions, to the annual show at Philadelphia in 1902 and the Boston Memorial Exhibition of 1904. 14 An impression was also exhibited by H. Wunderlich & Co., in New York in 1903.
12: Chicago 1893 (cat. no. 2259 [1679]); Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 263). See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
13: Wolverhampton 1902 (cat. no. 123); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 334).
14: Philadelphia 1902 (cat. no. 947 [278]); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 220).
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15: New York 1904a (cat. nos. 372, 372b); Rotterdam 1906 (cat. no. 47).
SALES & COLLECTORS
). Whistler then sold one on 20 July 1889 to Knoedler & Co. 16 He also sold one direct to Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) on 23 July 1889 (). 17
Another impression of the etching was sold to Wunderlich's in September 1897 at a revised price of £12.12.0. They recorded one sold in 1900. 18 Whistler sold an impression to David A. Kennedy (fl.1895-1915) on 20 January 1903 for the original price, £15.15.0. 19
American collectors, buying from Wunderlich's, included Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) (
) and Pauline Kohlsaat Palmer (1882-1956) (). Other impressions may have been sold by Wunderlich's to John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911) () or John Caldwell (fl. 1887-1907), who owned an impression marked 'Selected Proof -' by the artist ()., ).