UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

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J.H. Woods' Fruit Shop, Chelsea

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1888.20)
Number: 327
Date: 1887/1888
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 98 x 133 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 4
Catalogues: K.265; M.261
Impressions taken from this plate  (4)
Etching: PK265_01 (plate)
The copper plate has the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'
It is close in size to the plates for Booth at a Fair [257], St James Street decorated with bunting [326] and Marbles [270], and similar to several others including Gates, City, London [280], The Little Nurse, Grays Inn [286], Charing Cross Bridge [348], Return to Tilbury [311] and Windsor Castle [314], all dating from about 1887.
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death. It was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) who gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower right corner.