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Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1898.361)
Number: 57
Date: 1859
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 154 x 228 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 20
Catalogues: K.151; M.48; T.84; W.127
Impressions taken from this plate  (20)
Etching: PK151_01
Recto, above; verso, below:
Etching: PK151_02
The copper plate was cancelled with four diagonal lines at left. 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 plate was probably among those acquired from Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851), by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who explained: 'A number of these plates were returned to me after the artist's death by Robert Dunthorne of Vigo Street, London in exchange for a number of lithographic proofs'. 5

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

The plate was given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow in 1935.