The Little Rag Shop, Milman's Row | ||
Number: | 265 | |
Date: | 1886 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 71 x 103 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 2 | |
Known impressions: | 6 | |
Catalogues: | K.257; M.253; W.209 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (6) |
PUBLICATION
The Little Rag Shop, Milman's Row was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
It has been rarely exhibited. The first two known exhibitions took place at H. Wunderlich & Co., in New York, in 1898 and 1903. 14 Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought an impression from the latter show (
).
It also appeared in the Memorial shows after Whistler's death. For instance, an impression was shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and Messrs Ernest Brown & Phillips lent an impression to the Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 15
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It also appeared in the Memorial shows after Whistler's death. For instance, an impression was shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and Messrs Ernest Brown & Phillips lent an impression to the Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 15
14: New York 1898 (cat. no. 209), New York 1903b (cat. no. 169); see REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
15: New York 1904a (cat. no. 218); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 209).
SALES & COLLECTORS
On 5 October 1887 Whistler sold 'The Rag shop / Chelsea', which may have been this etching or The Rag Shop, Milman's Row [290], to the London print dealer, Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832) for £4.4.0. 16 This may have been the impression of the first state owned by Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), which was later bought from H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1903 (
).
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16: GUW #13014.
On 3 May 1888 the artist sold 'The Little Rag Shop - Chelsea' (which was definitely this etching) for £6.6.0 to Wunderlich's, to be forwarded to Ross Revillon Winans (1850-1912). 17
17: G. Dieterlen to Whistler, 3 May 1888, GUW #07158.
An impression was in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who in turn bequeathed it to the University of Glasgow (
). One was owned in turn by Tracy Dows (1871-1937), Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) and Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), who gave it to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (
). Another, from the collection of Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), was bought by the Pennell Fund for the Library of Congress (
).
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