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The 'Adam and Eve', Old Chelsea | ||
Number: | 182 | |
Date: | 1878 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 175 x 302 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left (3) | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | Hogarth and Son, 1879. | |
No. of States: | 3 | |
Known impressions: | 92 | |
Catalogues: | K.175; M.172; W.144 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (92) |
PUBLICATION
20: Wedmore 1886 A (cat. no. 144).
21: 14 March 1879, GUW #01098.
EXHIBITIONS
An impression shown in Leeds in 1893 was bought by the City Art Gallery and shown again in the following year (



22: London Grosvenor 1879 (cat. no. 286); see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
23: New York 1881 (cat. no. 154).
24: Leeds 1894 (cat. no. 852).
25: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 126).

26: New York 1904a (cat. no. 145); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 110); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 144).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought a rather worn impression of the third state from F. Keppel & Co. in 1893, which he mistakenly thought was a first state (



27: Sotheby’s, 3 March 1892 (lot 228).
By various means - purchases, gifts and bequests - impressions went to collections all over the world. The British Museum acquired an impression that was printed with slight retroussage, in 1891 (


Sadly, the print acquired by the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, in 1896 was destroyed by fire in 1944 (



Early collectors in Britain included James Guthrie Orchar (1825-1888) (






Collectors in America included Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) (








28: Christie’s, 13-4 July 1897 (lot 313); Christie's, 8 March 1900 (lot 7).