UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Recto, above; verso, below:

The plate has no maker's mark on the verso but was probably made by Hughes & Kimber, London. It is close in size to a large number of plates including Little Market Place, Tours [389], The Clock Tower - Amboise [429] and The Door of the Chapel, Montrésor [422], which were also drawn on Whistler's honeymoon in 1888.

Whistler etched a lot of plates of the same size, mostly from the same maker, including London scenes (i.e. Nut Shop, St James's Place, Houndsditch [356]) and a view of Brussels (The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels [346]), most of which date from 1887. Also in the same size are other views done in subsequent years in Amsterdam and Paris (i.e. Little Drawbridge, Amsterdam [448]).

The copper plate remained in Whistler's estate 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 upper right corner.