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Elinor Leyland

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46776)
Number: 137
Date: 1874
Medium: drypoint
Size: 214 x 139 mm
Signed: butterfly at right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 8
Known impressions: 30
Catalogues: K.109; M.108; T.78; W.95
Impressions taken from this plate  (30)
The copper plate is close in size to that bearing the portrait of Elinor's sister, Florence Leyland [136], and to a few slightly later plates including Temple Bar [175] and Steamboat Fleet, Chelsea [155].
It was cancelled with light diagonal lines of burnishing across the figure. It was probably among cancelled plates bought at Whistler's bankruptcy sale by the Fine Art Society, London. It was published in an album of Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by the F.A.S., 1879.
The copper plate was probably among those acquired from Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851), in exchange for lithographs, by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). 10 The plate was given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow in 1935.

10: Note by R. Birnie Philip, inserted in the album, Hunterian Art Gallery.