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Little Chelsea (Memorial)

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1892.22)
Number: 315
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 52 x 83 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 3
Catalogues: K.331; M.323; W.246
Impressions taken from this plate  (3)
Etching: PK331_01 (plate)
The copper plate was stamped twice with the oval maker's stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'
It is a very small plate, of the size that could easily be slipped in a pocket. Whistler used a similar size for another Chelsea subject, Little Maunder's [273], and other small sketches including Dieppe [251], The Dray Horse [292], and The Little Cloak [370].
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and 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.