The Japanese Dress |  Library of Congress (FP-XIX-W576, no. 337) | |
| Number: | 371 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 100 x 68 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.337; M.335 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
PUBLICATION
The Japanese Dress was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
It was very rare and rarely exhibited. An impression was shown at a print dealer's, H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898. 8 No other exhibition in Whistler's time is known.
8: New York 1898 (cat. no. 280).
SALES & COLLECTORS
The London print dealer, Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832), bought impressions from Whistler on 12 December 1887 for £5.5.0 and in February 1888 for £4.4.0. 9 It is not known who bought them; only two impressions are known, and one of those handled by McLean may be the one now in the Hamburger Kunsthalle (
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).The price then went down even further, and H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, bought one impression for £3.0.0 in 1896, and sold it by 1900, possibly to John Caldwell (fl. 1887-1907); it was later owned by Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), and finally acquired by the Library of Congress, Washington DC ().
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