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The Wine Glass |  Freer Gallery of Art (1888.21) | |
| Number: | 38 | |
| Date: | 1859 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 83 x 55 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler' at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 40 | |
| Catalogues: | K.27; M.27; T.28; W.31 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (40) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
) and 'The same. The effect much increased.' (). 20 Years later an impression was lent by Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) to another private collectors' club, the Caxton Club, which organised an exhibition in Chicago in 1900 (). 21
20: New York 1881 (cat. nos. 46, 47).
21: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 31).
), and 1903. 22
It was shown in the Memorial Exhibitions after Whistler's death, including the Copley Society show in Boston in 1904 and the Grolier Club in New York, also in 1904, and at the London Memorial in 1905, to which an impression was lent by Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934). 23
22: New York 1898 (cat. no. 30). See REFERENCES: EXHIBITIONS.
23: Boston 1904 (cat. no. 26); New York 1904a (cat. no. 33); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 31).
SALES & COLLECTORS
, , ). Freer had already bought an impression from Wunderlich's in 1888 () and was to buy yet another from Thomas Way (1837-1915) in London in 1905 ().). 24
Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) would have bought one about that time (, ). Other early collectors included Alfred Beurdeley (1847-1919) (); George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909) () and - a little later - Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) ().24: B.M. Register of Purchases ... 1872.
).25: Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lots 79-80).