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Quai de Montebello |  Hunterian Art Gallery (49905) | |
| Number: | 385 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 152 x 230 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 9 | |
| Catalogues: | K.417; M.366 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (9) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). 12 An impression was lent by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 and to a Whistler Memorial show in Boston in 1904 (). 13
An impression was also shown in the comprehensive Grolier Club exhibition in New York in 1904. Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932) himself lent one to the Whistler Memorial show in London in 1905. 14
12: New York 1903b (cat. no. 227); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
13: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 308), Boston 1904 (cat. no. 213).
14: New York 1904a (cat. no. 346); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 317).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought an impression of the second state from H. Wunderlich & Co. on 11 March 1903 (
). Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) owned one by 1900 (). Another impression, sold by Knoedler & Co., New York, was acquired by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935), and later by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), who gave it to the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (). One impression, handled by Colnaghi & Co. - and therefore possibly from the artist's executrix Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) - was acquired by the National Gallery of Australia (
). Miss Philip had
inherited the plate and kept some impressions, including a first state ( ) and had more printed by Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956) ().