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The Little Velvet Dress

Impression: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
(1943.3.8465)
Number: 119
Date: 1873
Medium: drypoint
Size: 166 x 122 mm
Signed: butterfly at right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 27
Catalogues: K.106; M.106; W.92
Impressions taken from this plate  (27)
Etching: PK106_01 (plate)
The copper plate was a different size from other copper plates around this date. It was cancelled with widely spaced diagonal lines across the figure.
The cancelled copper plate was probably among plates bought at Whistler's bankruptcy sale by the Fine Art Society, London. It was published in an album of Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by The Fine Art Society, London, 1879.
The copper plate was probably among those acquired from Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851), by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), in exchange for 'lithographic proofs'. 7 The plate was later given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow.

7: Note by R. Birnie Philip, inserted in the album, Hunterian Art Gallery.