Children, Portsmouth |  Art Institute of Chicago (1937.173) | |
| Number: | 301 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 67 x 99 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 6 | |
| Catalogues: | K.323; M.311 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (6) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate was stamped twice - rather faintly - with the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'
Several copper plates dated to 1887 are the same size, including another Jubilee subject,
The Abbey Jubilee 296, and several London scenes (e.g. St James's Park 250 and The Bonnet-Shop 254)
as well as other English (e.g. Cottage Door 252,
Butcher's Shop, Sandwich, Kent 320) and Belgian subjects (e.g. Children's Fruit Barrow 347).
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was given to the Univerity of Glasgow by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower left corner.