Little Chelsea (Memorial) |  Freer Gallery of Art (1892.22) | |
| Number: | 315 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 52 x 83 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 3 | |
| Catalogues: | K.331; M.323; W.246 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (3) | ||
PUBLICATION
Little Chelsea (Memorial) was never published.
EXHIBITIONS
Rarely exhibited, an impression was, however, lent by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 as 'Little Chelsea' (). 14
Other impressions were included in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, in New York in 1904, London and Paris in 1905. 15
Other impressions were included in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, in New York in 1904, London and Paris in 1905. 15
14: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 255).
15: New York 1904a (cat. no. 265); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 246a); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 401).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Whistler sold impressions to the London print dealers, Messrs Dowdeswell in August 1887 and one to Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832) in October at £5.5.0 each. 16
An impression from the important collection of Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) was sold after his death, at Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 320), to Frederick Keppel & Co., for £1.6.0; it was immediately bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), who bequeathed it to the Freer Gallery of Art (). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) owned an atmospheric impression in brown ink, which was sold through A. A. Hahlo & Co., New York, to Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), and later acquired by the Library of Congress (). An impression from the collection of Atherton Curtis (1863-1944) was given to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in 1943 ().
An impression from the important collection of Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) was sold after his death, at Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 320), to Frederick Keppel & Co., for £1.6.0; it was immediately bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), who bequeathed it to the Freer Gallery of Art (). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) owned an atmospheric impression in brown ink, which was sold through A. A. Hahlo & Co., New York, to Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), and later acquired by the Library of Congress (). An impression from the collection of Atherton Curtis (1863-1944) was given to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in 1943 ().
16: Whistler to Dowdeswell's, 27 July 1887, GUW #08677; 18 and 24 August 1887, #13654, #00893; to McLean, 5 October 1887, #13014.