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Fitzroy Square

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1905.204)
Number: 183
Date: 1878/1881
Medium: etching
Size: 127 x 92 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: T. R. Way, 1912
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 10
Catalogues: K.App.3; M.app. 4
Impressions taken from this plate  (10)

PUBLICATION

Fitzroy Square was not published.

EXHIBITIONS

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

SALES & COLLECTORS

Thomas Way (1837-1915) - printer of Whistler's lithographs - acquired the plate, which was printed by Francis Short (1857-1945); they each gave or sold impressions to other printers or collectors. Short gave an impression to Frederick Goulding (1842-1909) (). In 1905 Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) bought an impression from Thomas Way (1837-1915) () and the British Museum acquired an impression ().