The Bonnet-Shop |  Freer Gallery of Art (1891.5) | |
| Number: | 254 | |
| Date: | 1886/1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 99 x 67 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 1 | |
| Catalogues: | K.253; M.249 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (1) | ||
PUBLICATION
Bonnet Shop was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) lent his impression to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 (
) and probably to the Grolier Club exhibition in 1904 too (since no one else owned an impression there really was not much choice). 7
) and probably to the Grolier Club exhibition in 1904 too (since no one else owned an impression there really was not much choice). 7 7: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 252); New York 1904a (cat. no. 339).
SALES & COLLECTORS
The sole record of a sale was on 6 April 1891 when Whistler sold an impression to H. Wunderlich & Co., New York. This was bought in May by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), who bequeathed it to the Freer Gallery of Art, in 1919. 8
8: GUW #13097.