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The Cock and the Pump

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46914)
Number: 321
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 222 x 144 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 7
Catalogues: K.304; M.299; W.235
Impressions taken from this plate  (7)
The Cock and the Pump dates from 1887. It was etched in Sandwich, Kent, which was visited by Whistler in the late summer or early autumn of 1887.
The butterfly signature is consistent with this date. The first recorded sale was on 21 December 1887 to Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832). 1

Other etchings from the same town include Salvation Army, Sandwich 319, Double Doorway, Sandwich 322, Doorway, Sandwich 323 and Butcher's Shop, Sandwich, Kent 320

1: GUW #13017.