UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Recto, above; verso, below:

The Fleet: Monitors 306 is the same size as Jubilee Place, Chelsea 276 and Her Majesty's Fleet: Evening 310. The latter bears the oval stamp of Hughes & Kimber, London copper merchants. Also close in size are the plates for The Cock and the Pump 321, and two Brussels etchings, Palaces, Brussels 338 (also a Hughes & Kimber plate) and Grand'Place, Brussels 335, all dating from 1887.

The original large copper sheets were probably stamped before being cut into smaller sizes. Thus some Hughes & Kimber plates do not have a stamp on the verso. Given the consistency in size of these etchings from 1887, it seems likely they were all made by Hughes & Kimber.

The copper plates for the 'Naval Review Set' were in Whistler's studio in Paris in the 1890s, and returned to London when the studio was sold at the turn of the century. 9 The copper plate for The Fleet: Monitors was in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled with a diagonal line across the lower left corner.