UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Recto, above; verso, below:

The copper plate has the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' Whistler etched a lot of plates of the same size, mostly from the same maker, including London scenes (i.e. Cutler Street, Houndsditch 361), Queen Victoria's Jubilee subjects (i.e. Troopships 307), and a view of Brussels (The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels 346), most of which date from 1887. Also in the same size are views done, like Little Market Place, Tours, on the Whistler's honeymoon in the Loire valley (i.e. Château de Verneuil, Touraine 408, The Door of the Chapel, Montrésor 422) and in subsequent years in Amsterdam and Paris (i.e. Little Drawbridge, Amsterdam 448, Greengrocer's Shop, Paris 471).

The 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.