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Clothes-Exchange, Houndsditch, No. 2

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1917.484)
Number: 359
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 229 x 153 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 4
Catalogues: K.288; M.283
Impressions taken from this plate  (4)
Clothes-Exchange, Houndsditch, No. 2 probably dates from 1887. The butterfly signature is consistent with this date. It is closely related to Clothes-Exchange, Houndsditch. No. 1 [358].
The Newcastle Leader reported on 17 August 1887 'Mr Whistler ... was seen the other morning in the Minories sketching the picturesque corners of "Cloth Fair".' 1

Clothes-Exchange, Houndsditch, No. 2 was first recorded as sold on 29 June 1888 to H. Wunderlich & Co. 2

1: Newcastle Leader, 17 August 1887 (GUL PC9/1).

2: Whistler to Wunderlich's, GUW #13052.