Lady in an armchair | ||
Number: | 91 | |
Date: | 1861 | |
Medium: | drypoint | |
Size: | 230 x 153 mm | |
Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower right | |
Inscribed: | '1861.' at lower right | |
Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 19 | |
Catalogues: | K.79; M.80 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (19) |
PUBLICATION
It was published in an album of Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by The Fine Art Society, London, 1879.
EXHIBITIONS
Lady in an armchair has never been exhibited.
SALES & COLLECTORS
Sets including the cancelled impression of Lady in an armchair were bought by several collectors. George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909) bought a set, which passed eventually to the Baltimore Museum of Art (
). The British Museum acquired a set in 1887 (
). Another was acquired in the same year, 1887, by Thomas Glen Arthur (1858-1907) (
). Yet another was sold at the Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840- d.1892) sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1889 (lot 787 or 789), and bought by the London print dealer Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) for £0.6.0; it was later acquired by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who bequeathed it to the University of Glasgow, 1958 (
).




Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought a set in 1893 from Knoedler & Co., which he bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art (
). J. Littauer (fl. 1896) of Munich sold another set to the Hamburger Kunsthalle, in 1896 (
). In Paris, Alfred Strölin (dates unknown) sold a fine set to Jacques Doucet (1853-1929) in 1907, which he gave to the Bibliothèque Jacques Doucet in 1918 (
).


