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Gypsy Baby

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1902.107)
Number: 373
Date: 1887/1888
Medium: etching
Size: 100 x 68 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 3
Catalogues: K.339; M.337
Impressions taken from this plate  (3)
Etching: PK339_01 (plate)
Recto, above; verso, below:
Etching: PK339_02 (plate)
The copper plate has the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is the same size as The Japanese Dress [371], and close in size to several plates of similar date including The Little Hat [366], The Baby, Gray's Inn [288], and The Menpes Children [300].
It was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower left corner, running from above the centre at left to near the lower right corner.