Baby Pettigrew | ||
Number: | 374 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 135 x 98 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly to left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 4 | |
Catalogues: | K.341; M.336 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (4) |
PUBLICATION
Baby Pettigrew was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
It was exhibited by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898, and in 1903. 5 An impression - probably bought from Wunderlich's - was lent by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in 1900 (
). 6
Impressions also appeared after Whistler's death in the Memorial Shows at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and in London, in 1905. 7

Impressions also appeared after Whistler's death in the Memorial Shows at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904 and in London, in 1905. 7
5: New York 1898 (cat. no. 287); New York 1903b (cat. no. 222).
6: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 280).
7: New York 1904a (cat. no. 333); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 308).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler sold an impression in 1899 to H. Wunderlich & Co., New York for £3.3.0. 8 This may have been bought by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) (
) or Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (
).
Whistler sold another to the London print dealer Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) in June 1903 for £10.10.0, the huge increase in price perhaps reflecting Dunthorne's awareness that Whistler was very ill. 9 This impression was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) a couple of months later (
).
Two impressions were inherited by Whistler's sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who bequeathed them to the University of Glasgow, which kept one (
) , and sold the other (
).


Whistler sold another to the London print dealer Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) in June 1903 for £10.10.0, the huge increase in price perhaps reflecting Dunthorne's awareness that Whistler was very ill. 9 This impression was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) a couple of months later (

Two impressions were inherited by Whistler's sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who bequeathed them to the University of Glasgow, which kept one (

