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From Billingsgate

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1898.362)
Number: 165
Date: 1876/1877
Medium: drypoint
Size: 152 x 229 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right (6-final)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 8
Known impressions: 28
Catalogues: K.168; M.164; W.130
Impressions taken from this plate  (28)
From Billingsgate dates from either 1876 or 1877. It was certainly being printed and sold in October 1877. 1

Other etchings of this date include Pickle Herring Wharf 164, The Tiny Pool 167, Free Trade Wharf 171 and London Bridge 172.

1: Whistler to Hogarth & Sons, 22-27 October [1877], GUW #12737.