Fitzroy Square |  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) | ||
Fitzroy Square dates from 1878/1879 or 1880/1881. The butterfly signature is consistent with these dates.
Mansfield was wrong in suggesting that 'The drawing on the plate was done by Whistler, possibly as early as 1886'. 1
1: Mansfield 1909 (App. IV).