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Girl Lying Down

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1893.82)
Number: 128
Date: 1875/1876
Medium: drypoint
Size: 132 x 209 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 18
Catalogues: K.124; M.121
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

No exhibition of Girl Lying Down is recorded.

SALES & COLLECTORS

Prices were low but collectors and collections were keen to have the set of cancelled etchings, as a record of a substantial number of otherwise unrecorded etchings and drypoints. A set, probably acquired from the Fine Art Society by Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840- d.1892), was auctioned in 1889 and bought by the London dealer Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) for £0.6.0. 5 Dunthorne exchanged it for other works with Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) who bequeathed it to the University of Glasgow (see ). She acquired another set, trimmed the impressions and stuck them on the envelopes containing the copper plates (i.e. ).

5: Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1889 (lot 787 or 789)

Early owners included George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909) () and Walter M. Hill (1868-1952)(). Thomas Glen Arthur (1858-1907) bought a set in 1887 () as did the British Museum (). Boston Public Library also acquired a set (). Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought a set of the cancelled etchings in 1893 () from Knoedler & Co. A set acquired by J. Littauer (fl. 1896), Munich was sold to the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 1896 ().