The Silk Dress |  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1949.5.539) | |
| Number: | 151 | |
| Date: | 1875 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 209 x 134 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 18 | |
| Catalogues: | K.107; M.115 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (18) | ||
PUBLICATION
It was published in an album of Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by The Fine Art Society, London, 1879.
EXHIBITIONS
The Silk Dress was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime. One impression was lent by John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 5
5: London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 382).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938) owned an impression (
), which was sold through Obach & Co. to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1903. Freer had already bought a cancelled set including this etching () from Knoedler & Co. ten years earlier, in 1893.
), which was sold through Obach & Co. to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1903. Freer had already bought a cancelled set including this etching () from Knoedler & Co. ten years earlier, in 1893.
George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909) bought a cancelled set, now in Baltimore Museum of Art (); the British Museum bought a set in 1887 and the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, bought a set from J. Littauer (fl. 1896), Munich, in 1896 (). Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) owned two cancelled impressions, (), one which was stuck on the envelope containing the copper plate, and another (), both of which she gave to the University of Glasgow.
); the British Museum bought a set in 1887 and the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, bought a set from J. Littauer (fl. 1896), Munich, in 1896 (). Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) owned two cancelled impressions, (), one which was stuck on the envelope containing the copper plate, and another (), both of which she gave to the University of Glasgow.Later collectors included William McNeill Whistler (1836-1900), who owned an early impression that was later acquired by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) and given to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC ().
).