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Petticoat Lane |  Freer Gallery of Art (1904.164) | |
| Number: | 299 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 95 x 134 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 8 | |
| Catalogues: | K.285; M.281; W.230 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (8) | ||
PUBLICATION
EXHIBITIONS
). 12
Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) lent an impression to the exhibition organised by the Caxton Club in Chicago in 1900 (). 13
After Whistler's death, an impression was shown at the Grolier Club in New York in 1904, and John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908) lent an impression to the Whistler Memorial Exhibition in London in 1905. 14
12: New York 1903b (cat. no.180); see REFERENCES : EXHIBITIONS.
13: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. 200).
14: New York 1904a (cat. no. 243); London Mem. 1905 (cat. no. 230).
SALES & COLLECTORS
Another was sold through Wunderlich's in New York to a relative of Whistler's, Ross Revillon Winans (1850-1912) on 3 May 1888 at the same price. 16
Other early collectors included John Charles Sigismund Day (1826-1908), Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) (
), Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916) (), and Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) (), who mentioned that Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) also owned a first state. 17
16: Wunderlich's to Whistler, GUW #07158.
17: Mansfield 1909 (cat. no. 281)
) who had already bought another state from Wunderlich's (). In 1935 she gave one (the first proof) to the University of Glasgow () and in 1958 she bequeathed another (), which the Hunterian later sold, having also bought another good impression ().