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The Dyer | ||
Number: | 192 | |
Date: | 1879/1880 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 306 x 240 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 10 | |
Known impressions: | 18 | |
Catalogues: | K.219; M.216; W.189 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (18) |
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
8: London FAS 1883 (cat. no. 11).
9: 'Mr Whistler's Venice', St James Gazette, 9 December 1880 (GUL PC15/13).
10: Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Etchings', Daily News, 20 February 1883 (GUL PC25/20).
11: Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Etchings', Globe, 19 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/19).


After Whistler's death two impressions, of different states, were shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and individual impressions at the Memorial shows in Paris and London in 1905. 15
12: Chicago 1893 (cat. no. 2237 [1669]); Philadelphia 1902 (cat. no. 947 [187] ); Boston 1904 (cat. no. 147).
13: Detroit Museum of Art, Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings Etchings..., 1889 (cat. no. 201); Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 169).
14: See REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
15: New York 1904a (cat. nos. 191, 191b); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 189).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Several richly inked impressions were signed by Whistler for sale about 1886 or 1887 (








Other early collectors included Peter Arrell Brown Widener (1834-1915) (







22: 18 April 1893, GUW #01259.