H. Wunderlich & Co. was a print gallery in New York founded by Hermann Wunderlich in 1874. The gallery primarily handled Old Master prints and works by contemporary artists such as Whistler, David Cameron, and Seymour Haden. Edward Guthrie Kennedy oversaw the British and modern works on paper. The name changed to Kennedy & Company in 1912 and is not affiliated with Wunderlich & Co, founded in the 1980s. Hermann Wunderlich visited Whistler in the summer of 1888 to request fifty water color drawings and pastels for an upcoming exhibition at the gallery. Wunderlich promised to cover all costs of designing and decorating the gallery space, as well as to sell or buy-in pictures worth five hundred pounds. At the time, Whistler's watercolors were rarely shown in America, where he was better known from his etchings. To prepare for the exhibition, Whistler asked his collectors for his artworks back instead of creating new works. Although Whistler promised sixty-two works (and a printed catalogue reflected that number), he only sent forty-four paintings. Still, Kennedy was pleased, writing that "we are delighted with the collection" and "The Watercolors especially are perfect gems." The show opened in March of 1889 with the title "Notes"–"Harmonies"–"Nocturnes". It generally received positive feedback, with a writer for Critic noting that "You enter through a rose-colored mist into a restricted fairyland at the rear of Mr. Wunderlich's store...You are, as it were, caught up in a sunset cloud and transported to some eight-by-ten Elysium where, for all your good deeds in the flesh, you are rewarded by a sight of Mr. James McNeill Whistler's pictures" ("The Fine Arts: The Whistler Exhibition," Critic, March 16, 1889, 272).