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Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46648) | |
| Number: | 443 | |
| Date: | 1889/1890 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 128 x 178 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 3 | |
| Catalogues: | K.425; M.421 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (3) | ||
PUBLICATION
Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime as far as is known. After his death, impressions were shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and in the Memorial Exhibitions in London and Paris in 1905. 8
8: New York 1904a (cat. no. 343); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 314); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 423).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Both Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) (
) and Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) () owned impressions, and one was kept by Whistler and passed to the University of Glasgow by his sister-in-law Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) (). Similarities in title make it hard to distinguish between the sales of this and other Luxembourg subjects.
) and Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) () owned impressions, and one was kept by Whistler and passed to the University of Glasgow by his sister-in-law Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) (). Similarities in title make it hard to distinguish between the sales of this and other Luxembourg subjects.