Carpet Menders, Paris |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46646) | |
| Number: | 480 | |
| Date: | 1897/1898 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 201 x 251 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.420; M.416; W.257 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
PUBLICATION
It was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
Impressions were exhibited at least three times in Whistler's lifetime, first by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898; next, lent by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) to an exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 and to the first Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1902 (). 11
After Whistler's death, impressions were shown at the Memorial Exhibitions in Boston, Paris, London, and Rotterdam, being lent to Boston by Mansfield, and to Rotterdam by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) (). 12
After Whistler's death, impressions were shown at the Memorial Exhibitions in Boston, Paris, London, and Rotterdam, being lent to Boston by Mansfield, and to Rotterdam by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) (). 12
11: New York 1898 (cat. no. 290); Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 223); Philadelphia 1902 (cat. no. 947 [257]).
12: London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 2570); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 408); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 184); Rotterdam 1906 (cat. no. 35).
SALES & COLLECTORS
In the summer of 1898 Whistler sold an impression of 'Carpet Menders - Paris -' to H. Wunderlich & Co. of New York for £10.10.0. 13
One impression has not been located, that owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) in 1909-1910 (). Only two impressions have been located, one that stayed in the artist's studio, and was given by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) to the University of Glasgow (), and another that was acquired - probably from Colnaghi's in the 1930s - by Margaret Selkirk Watson Parker (1867-1936), who left it to the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor ().
One impression has not been located, that owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) in 1909-1910 (). Only two impressions have been located, one that stayed in the artist's studio, and was given by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) to the University of Glasgow (), and another that was acquired - probably from Colnaghi's in the 1930s - by Margaret Selkirk Watson Parker (1867-1936), who left it to the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor ().
13: Wunderlich's to Whistler, 1898 Sales Report, 24 March 1899, GUW #07305.