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Fanny Leyland | ||
Number: | 135 | |
Date: | 1874 | |
Medium: | drypoint | |
Size: | 197 x 134 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at left (2-final) | |
Inscribed: | 'Fanny Leyland' at upper left | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 6 | |
Known impressions: | 12 | |
Catalogues: | K.108; M.107; T.77; W.94 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (12) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS

In 1881, an impression was shown in an international exhibition in Berlin, and Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) lent what was described as a 'trial proof' to the Union League Club exhibition in New York (

Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent his impression to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 (which he helped organise), to the show organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900, to the first annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1902 and finally, after Whistler's death, to a Memorial show in Boston in 1904 (

Impressions appeared in several print dealers' shows, exhibited by H. Wunderlich & Co. in New York in 1898 (

13: Liverpool 1874 (cat. no. 480).
14: London Pall Mall 1874 (cat. nos. 6, 22, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 33, 35, 36 or 50).
15: New York 1881 (cat. no. 124). See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
17: Glasgow 1888 (cat. no. 2552-27)
18: Chicago 1893 (cat. no. 2252); Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 89); Philadelphia 1902 (cat. no. 947); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 76).

19: New York 1904a (cat. no. 98); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 94); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 332).
SALES & COLLECTORS




Ten years later, on 28 April 1887, Whistler sold an impression to Messrs Dowdeswell for £6.6.0. 21 This may have been the delicate impression owned by Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934), and later sold through Wunderlich's of New York, acquired by Charles Deering (1852-1927) and given in 1927 to the Art Institute of Chicago (


At auction prices were quite high. A 'trial proof' was sold with the collection of the late Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d.1891) at Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 146) and bought by the London print dealer, Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) for £15.10.0 (
