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Agnes

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1892.9)
Number: 146
Date: 1875/1878
Medium: drypoint
Size: 229 x 154 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 22
Catalogues: K.134; M.132; W.106
Impressions taken from this plate  (22)
Etching: PK134_01 (plate)
The copper plate has the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It was a size much used by Whistler. Plates similar in size include Mrs Leyland, Sr. [123], Irving as Philip of Spain, No. 1 [158], Irving as Philip of Spain, No. 2 [159] and Nude Woman Standing, hand on hip [114] most of which are Hughes & Kimber plates. It was cancelled with diagonal lines.
The cancelled copper plate was probably among 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 Fine Art Society, London, 1879.
The copper plate was probably among those acquired in exchange for lithographs from Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851), by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). 3 The plate was given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow in 1935.

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