Tillie: A Model |  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1949.5.540) | |
| Number: | 113 | |
| Date: | 1873 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 235 x 160 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 5 | |
| Known impressions: | 6 | |
| Catalogues: | K.117; M.116; W.102 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (6) | ||
PUBLICATION
Tillie: A Model was never published. It may have been considered for publication in the Cancelled Set by the Fine Art Society in 1879 (
), but was not included in the final album.
), but was not included in the final album.EXHIBITIONS
Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) lent an impression of the first state to the Union League Club in New York in 1881 (). 10 Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910) bought another first state from the collection of James Anderson Rose (1819-1890), at auction on 30 June 1876 (), and this was exhibited by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898 and sold to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent an impression to the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 () and to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in Boston in 1904. 11
). 10 Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910) bought another first state from the collection of James Anderson Rose (1819-1890), at auction on 30 June 1876 (), and this was exhibited by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898 and sold to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent an impression to the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 () and to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in Boston in 1904. 11 10: New York 1881 (cat. no. 122). See REFERENCE : EXHIBITIONS.
11: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 96); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 80).
Two impressions were also shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and another one was lent by John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) to the Whistler Memorial show in London in 1905. 12
12: New York 1904a (cat. no. 108, 108b); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 102).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) owned a second state, which was signed by Whistler in 1873 (). James Anderson Rose (1819-1890) had a first state, which was sold at auction on 30 June 1876 and bought by Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910) (); his collection went to H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898, when this proof was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) owned at least one impression (). Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938) owned a unique impression worked over in ink washes, which was bought from Obach & Co. by Freer in 1904 ().
). James Anderson Rose (1819-1890) had a first state, which was sold at auction on 30 June 1876 and bought by Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910) (); his collection went to H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898, when this proof was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) owned at least one impression (). Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938) owned a unique impression worked over in ink washes, which was bought from Obach & Co. by Freer in 1904 ().