Melon Shop, Houndsditch |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46630) | |
| Number: | 355 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 128 x 178 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 5 | |
| Known impressions: | 10 | |
| Catalogues: | K.293; M.288 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (10) | ||
This is one of a batch of copper plates of identical size bought from Hughes & Kimber, and bearing on the verso their oval stamp: ''HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'. Most date from 1887 (i.e. T. A. Nash's Greengrocer's Shop 298, Shaving and Shampooing 442,
Cutler Street, Houndsditch 361, Exeter Street 274). Two unstamped plates of the same size, Nut Shop, St James's Place, Houndsditch 356 and The Visitors' Boat 303, dating from 1887, probably come from the same source. Three date from the following year, 1888 and one perhaps from later. 10
10: The Door of the Chapel, Montrésor 422, The Clock Tower - Amboise 429, Little Market Place, Tours 389; The Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens, No. 2 444
The Melon Shop, Houndsditch 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 across the lower left corner.