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From Agnes Sorel's Walk, Loches |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46639) | |
| Number: | 419 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 135 x 271 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 3 | |
| Catalogues: | K.385; M.385 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (3) | ||
PUBLICATION
It was never published. However, it is related to Whistler's unpublished 'Renaissance Set'.
EXHIBITIONS
An impression was shown in the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900, lent by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (
) and one at the first Annual Exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia in 1902, lent by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (). 7
After Whistler's death an impression was exhibited at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and, again lent by Mansfield (), in the Memorial Exhibition in Boston in 1904 (). Another, probably lent by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) () was included in the Memorial Exhibition in Paris in 1905. 8
) and one at the first Annual Exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia in 1902, lent by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (). 7
After Whistler's death an impression was exhibited at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and, again lent by Mansfield (
), in the Memorial Exhibition in Boston in 1904 (). Another, probably lent by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) () was included in the Memorial Exhibition in Paris in 1905. 8
7: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 264); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
8: New York 1904a (cat. no. 380); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 225); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 433).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Single impressions of this rare etching were sold by Whistler to H. Wunderlich & Co. of New York on 24 May 1889, and to Knoedler & Co., also New York dealers, on 20 July 1889, for £12.12.0. 9
Whistler kept one impression for himself (). It was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) who passed it to the University of Glasgow.
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought the impression from Wunderlich's in 1889, and bequeathed it to the Freer Gallery of Art (). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) acquired the Knoedler's impression (it was No. 10 in their list, and '(No 10)' is written on the verso) and it was later bought by Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), and then by the Library of Congress ().
Whistler kept one impression for himself (
). It was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) who passed it to the University of Glasgow.Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought the impression from Wunderlich's in 1889, and bequeathed it to the Freer Gallery of Art (
). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) acquired the Knoedler's impression (it was No. 10 in their list, and '(No 10)' is written on the verso) and it was later bought by Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), and then by the Library of Congress ().