Wimpole Street |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46895) | |
| Number: | 279 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 100 x 67 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.286; M.278 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
PUBLICATION
Wimpole Street was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime. It was however shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904. 8
8: New York 1904a (cat. no. 324).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Wimpole Street is extremely rare. Whistler kept one impression () and sold one to H.Wunderlich & Co., New York, on 3 May 1888 for £3.3.0. 9 This was probably the impression bought by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) ().
9: GUW #13051.