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Lady in an armchair

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1893.75)
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)
Etching: PK079_01
Recto, above; verso, below:
Etching: PK079_02
The copper plate is close in size to a number of plates that bear the same rectangular maker's stamp, 'HUGHES AND KIMBER / MANUFACTURERS / RED LION PASSAGE / FLEET STREET / LONDON'. These date from between about 1859 until well into the 1870s, and include Whistler with a hat 044, Fumette's Bent Head 058, Mr Mann 073, Axenfeld 068, Riault (The Wood Engraver) 069 and Brushing the Hair 094.
The cancelled copper plate was probably among plates bought at Whistler's bankruptcy sale by the Fine Art Society, London. It was published in the set of Cancelled Plates by the Fine Art Society in 1879.
The copper plate was probably among those acquired from Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851), by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who explained: 'A number of these plates were returned to me after the artist's death by Robert Dunthorne of Vigo Street, London in exchange for a number of lithographic proofs'. 2 The plate was given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow in 1935.