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The Little Hat | ||
Number: | 366 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 100 x 67 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 8 | |
Catalogues: | K.335; M.331 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (8) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
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After Whistler's death, an impression also appeared in the comprehensive Grolier Club show in New York in 1904, and John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) lent another to the Whistler Memorial show in London in 1905. 11
9: New York 1898 ; see REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
10: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 301).
11: London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 306); New York 1904a (cat. no. 332).
SALES & COLLECTORS
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Wunderlich's of New York wrote to Whistler on 3 May 1888 with a 'List of Etchings forwarded to Mr Ross Winans 1217 St Paul St. Balt[imore] Md.' that included 'The Little Hat', priced at £6.6.0. The collector was Ross Revillon Winans (1850-1912), a relative of Whistler's. In 1897 Wunderlich's (by then Whistler's principal American dealers) wrote that they had one 'Little hat' in stock, and in 1900, that ''The little hat' had been sold for £4.4.0. 14 It is likely that the later sale was to Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) (
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Finally, after Whistler's death in 1903 two impressions were inherited by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) who bequeathed them to the University of Glasgow (
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15: 17 June 1903, GUW #13042.