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Gates, City, London

Impression: Library of Congress
Library of Congress
(FP-XIX-W576, no. 283)
Number: 280
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 133 x 97 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.283; M.279
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)
Gates, City, London dates from 1887. The butterfly signature is consistent with this date.
The copper plate is very close in size to several other plates such as Booth at a Fair 257 and The Little Nurse, Grays Inn 286, including some that definitely date from 1887, such as Return to Tilbury 311.
It is one of a series of etchings made in and around Grey's Inn at this date, including Doorway, Gray's Inn 289 and The Steps, Gray's Inn 282.