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Cottage Door

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1888.1)
Number: 252
Date: 1886
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 68 x 100 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 8
Catalogues: K.250; M.246; W.204
Impressions taken from this plate  (8)
Etching: PK250_01 (plate)
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp, 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is the same size and stamp as that for St James's Park [250]. It is also very close in size to The Menpes Children [300], Butcher's Shop, Sandwich, Kent [320], and Children, Portsmouth [301], which may date from the same period.
The copper plate is pitted; a line of regular marks is visible in the bottom left corner, possibly made from gripping that corner with a vice.
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. The plate was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower left corner.