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Bird-Cages, Chelsea | ||
Number: | 297 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 153 x 230 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 2 | |
Known impressions: | 8 | |
Catalogues: | K.276; M.271 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (8) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
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Impressions were later included in several exhibitions after Whistler's death, including the big Memorial Exhibitions. It was shown, for instance, at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904; Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) lent his impression to the Boston Memorial show organised by the Copley Society in 1904 (
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16: New York 1898 (cat. no. 180); New York 1903b (cat. no. 216).
17: See REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
18: New York 1904a (cat. no. 321); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 207); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 297).
SALES & COLLECTORS
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19: GUW #13660.
20: [21 August 1888], GUW #08830.
21: To Dowdeswell, GUW #13028.
Bird Cages. Chel 3 -
Woods Fruit Shop 6.' 22
22: [1888/1892?], GUW #13241.
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By 18 July 1889 Whistler had only one 'Bird Shop (Chelsea)' left. 25 So unless he printed more, this would have been the single impression still in his studio at his death in 1903, which was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), and given by her to the University of Glasgow in 1935 (
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