Dordrecht | ||
Number: | 259 | |
Date: | 1886 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 153 x 230 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 2 | |
Known impressions: | 13 | |
Catalogues: | K.242; M.239; W.200 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (13) |
The copper plate has no maker's mark, but is similar in size to several other plates of similar date, Bird-Cages, Chelsea 297,
Merton Villa, Chelsea 381, Clothes-Exchange, Houndsditch. No. 2 359,
Rag Shop, Milman's Row, Chelsea 329, and Quai de Montebello 385.
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death 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 at right.