Grand'Place, Brussels | ||
Number: | 335 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 222 x 143 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 2 | |
Known impressions: | 15 | |
Catalogues: | K.362; M.354; W.251 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (15) |
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate is the same as or close in size to The Cock and the Pump 321, The Fleet: Monitors 306, Jubilee Place, Chelsea 276 and to two plates bearing the oval stamp of Hughes & Kimber (Palaces, Brussels 338, Her Majesty's Fleet: Evening 310). 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 plate for Grand'Place, Brussels 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.