Petticoat Lane | ||
Number: | 299 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 95 x 134 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 2 | |
Known impressions: | 8 | |
Catalogues: | K.285; M.281; W.230 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (8) |
PUBLICATION
Petticoat Lane was not published. However, it is related to Whistler's unpublished but clearly defined 'Houndsditch Set'.
EXHIBITIONS
Impressions were exhibited by Grosvenor Thomas & Paterson in Glasgow in 1892, by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898 and 1903, Obach & Co. in London in 1903 and Frederick Keppel (1845-1912) of F. Keppel & Co. in New York in 1904. The impression exhibited by Wunderlich's in 1903 was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (
). 12 Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) lent an impression to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 (
). 13
After Whistler's death, an impression was shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) lent an impression to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 14
![Graphic with a link to impression #K2850104](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K2850102](../../images/etchlink.gif)
After Whistler's death, an impression was shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) lent an impression to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 14
12: New York 1903b (cat. no.180); see REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
13: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 200).
14: New York 1904a (cat. no. 243); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 230).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Two impressions were sold by Whistler to the London print dealer, Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832), for £7.7.0 each, on 29 August and 21 December 1887. 15
Another was sold through Wunderlich's in New York to a relative of Whistler's, Ross Revillon Winans (1850-1912) on 3 May 1888 at the same price. 16
Other early collectors included John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908), Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) (
), Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) (
), and Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (
), who mentioned that Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) also owned a first state. 17
Another was sold through Wunderlich's in New York to a relative of Whistler's, Ross Revillon Winans (1850-1912) on 3 May 1888 at the same price. 16
Other early collectors included John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908), Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) (
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![Graphic with a link to impression #K2850102](../../images/etchlink.gif)
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16: Wunderlich's to Whistler, GUW #07158.
17: Mansfield 1909 (cat. no. 281)
Several impressions were in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to his executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) in 1903. In July 1904 she sold one to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) (
) who had already bought another state from Wunderlich's (
). In 1935 she gave one (the first proof) to the University of Glasgow (
) and in 1958 she bequeathed another (
), which the Hunterian later sold, having also bought another good impression (
).
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![Graphic with a link to impression #K2850104](../../images/etchlink.gif)
![Graphic with a link to impression #K2850001](../../images/etchlink.gif)
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