The Little Forge, Liverpool |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46779) | |
| Number: | 141 | |
| Date: | 1875 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 228 x 152 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left (8); removed (9); butterfly at lower left (10-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 16 | |
| Known impressions: | 19 | |
| Catalogues: | K.147; M.145; W.115 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (19) | ||
The copper plate has no maker's mark. It was the same or close in size to some earlier plates (Bibi Valentin 034, Bibi Lalouette 033, Soupe à trois sous 064 and
Landscape with Fisherman 085,
Jo 087)
as well as to plates dating from the 1870s including
Speke Hall: The Avenue 101,
Nude Woman Standing, hand on hip 114, Irving as Philip of Spain, No. 1 158, and Greenhithe 173.
It may have been among cancelled plates sold at the time of Whistler's bankruptcy, and bought by the Fine Art Society, or acquired by Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) and exchanged for lithographs with the artist's sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958).
The plate was given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line.