Agnes | ||
Number: | 146 | |
Date: | 1875/1878 | |
Medium: | drypoint | |
Size: | 229 x 154 mm | |
Signed: | no | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
No. of States: | 3 | |
Known impressions: | 22 | |
Catalogues: | K.134; M.132; W.106 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (22) |
PUBLICATION
It was published in an album of the Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by The Fine Art Society, London, 1879.
EXHIBITIONS
The first exhibition recorded was in 1898 when an impression was shown by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York. In 1900 an impression was lent by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago (either , or ). 4
4: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 99). See REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
After the artist's death, impressions were shown in the Whistler Memorial Exhibitions, lent by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) to the Boston Memorial in 1904, and by Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) in London in 1905, as well as one exhibited in Paris in 1905. 5
5: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 82); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 106).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Two impressions were sold from the collection of the late Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) at Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 154) bought by Frederick Keppel (1845-1912) of F. Keppel & Co. for £5.15.0 () and one by Edmund F. Deprez (1851-1915) of Deprez & Gutekunst for £7.0.0 (). Keppel sold his to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) and Deprez's purchase went to Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) and years later to Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) who gave it to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910) owned an impression that was sold through H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1898 and also bought by Freer (). Freer bequeathed his impressions to the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC.