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Little Maunder's |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46903) | |
| Number: | 273 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 83 x 52 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 7 | |
| Catalogues: | K.279; M.274 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (7) | ||
PUBLICATION
Little Maunder's was not published.
EXHIBITIONS
No exhibition in Whistler's lifetime has been identified, but it was shown in the Memorial Exhibitions after his death, at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, in London (lent by Ernest Brown & Phillips) and Paris in 1905, and in Rotterdam in 1906, lent by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) (
or ). 15
or ). 15
15: New York 1904a (cat. no. 325); Paris Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 422); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 299); Rotterdam 1906 (cat. no. 63).
SALES & COLLECTORS
After consulting the newly published catalogue by Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921), Messrs Dowdeswell, London art dealers, requested impressions of a number of etchings in February 1887. 16 Three impressions of 'Little Chelsea Fish shop -' were sold by Whistler to Messrs Dowdeswell on
27 July 1887 for £3.3.0 each. 17
In 1897 the New York print dealers H. Wunderlich & Co. bought '1 Little furniture shop Maunders', which is obviously a misleading title, and might be this etching or Furniture Shop [278]. 18
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) owned two similar impressions, both printed in dark brown ink on ivory laid paper. One had been bought under the title 'Gable - Little Maunders' from the collection of Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938) by Wunderlich's for £3.2.0 in 1903 and was sold in the same year to Freer (). 19 Freer bought the other from Obach & Co., London, on 9 December 1903 ().
Two impressions were still in Whistler's studio at his death, and were left to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who bequeathed both to the Hunterian Art Gallery (, ).
Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) owned one impression (), sold through A.A. Hahlo to Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), and later to Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), who gave it to the National Gallery of Art. One impression was acquired by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948), who bequeathed it to the British Museum, London, 1949 ().
In 1897 the New York print dealers H. Wunderlich & Co. bought '1 Little furniture shop Maunders', which is obviously a misleading title, and might be this etching or Furniture Shop [278]. 18
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) owned two similar impressions, both printed in dark brown ink on ivory laid paper. One had been bought under the title 'Gable - Little Maunders' from the collection of Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938) by Wunderlich's for £3.2.0 in 1903 and was sold in the same year to Freer (
). 19 Freer bought the other from Obach & Co., London, on 9 December 1903 ().Two impressions were still in Whistler's studio at his death, and were left to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who bequeathed both to the Hunterian Art Gallery (
, ). Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) owned one impression (
), sold through A.A. Hahlo to Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), and later to Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), who gave it to the National Gallery of Art. One impression was acquired by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948), who bequeathed it to the British Museum, London, 1949 ().