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Man Fishing

Impression: Whistler Etchings Project
Whistler Etchings Project
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Number: 404
Date: 1888
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 220 x 131 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 1
Catalogues: K.-; M.-; T.-; W.-
Impressions taken from this plate  (1)
Etching: PE27_01 (plate)
Recto, above; verso, below:
Etching: PE27_02 (plate)
On the verso the copper plate bears the oval maker's mark of 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' who were Whistler's favourite suppliers. This stamp is on another etching of the same size, Court of the Monastery of St. Augustine, Bourges [403], dating from 1888 and on one that is very close in size, Zaandam [458], dated a year later, 1889. Other etchings of the same size but without the stamp are Mairie, Loches [413] and Notre-Dame, Bourges [402] of 1888, and Church, Amsterdam [445] of 1889.
The copper plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). Miss Philip gave the plate to the University of Glasgow in 1935. The plate was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line from centre bottom to centre right.