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Elinor Leyland

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46776)
Number: 137
Date: 1874
Medium: drypoint
Size: 214 x 139 mm
Signed: butterfly at right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 8
Known impressions: 30
Catalogues: K.109; M.108; T.78; W.95
Impressions taken from this plate  (30)
Elinor Leyland dates from 1873 or 1874. The butterfly signature is consistent with this date. One impression is inscribed '5 / 1873 - ' possibly by Whistler, but not necessarily at that date. The drypoint was first exhibited in 1874. 1

1: Liverpool 1874 (cat. no. 482).

Other portraits of similar or slightly later date include The Little Velvet Dress [119], The Silk Dress [151], Fanny Leyland [135] and Florence Leyland [136].