UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Little Chelsea (Memorial)

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1892.22)
Number: 315
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 52 x 83 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 3
Catalogues: K.331; M.323; W.246
Impressions taken from this plate  (3)

PUBLICATION

Little Chelsea (Memorial) was never published.

EXHIBITIONS

Rarely exhibited, an impression was, however, lent by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 as 'Little Chelsea' (Graphic with a link to impression #K3310102). 14

Other impressions were included in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, in New York in 1904, London and Paris in 1905. 15

14: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 255).

15: New York 1904a (cat. no. 265); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 246a); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 401).

SALES & COLLECTORS

Whistler sold impressions to the London print dealers, Messrs Dowdeswell in August 1887 and one to Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832) in October at £5.5.0 each. 16

An impression from the important collection of Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) was sold after his death, at Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 320), to Frederick Keppel & Co., for £1.6.0; it was immediately bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), who bequeathed it to the Freer Gallery of Art (Graphic with a link to impression #K3310102). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) owned an atmospheric impression in brown ink, which was sold through A. A. Hahlo & Co., New York, to Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), and later acquired by the Library of Congress (Graphic with a link to impression #K3310104). An impression from the collection of Atherton Curtis (1863-1944) was given to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in 1943 (Graphic with a link to impression #K3310103).

16: Whistler to Dowdeswell's, 27 July 1887, GUW #08677; 18 and 24 August 1887, #13654, #00893; to McLean, 5 October 1887, #13014.