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After the Sale, Clothes Exchange, Houndsditch

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46907)
Number: 357
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 127 x 177 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 5
Catalogues: K.294; M.289
Impressions taken from this plate  (5)
Etching: PK294_01 (plate)
The copper plate has no maker's mark. It was close in size to many other plates, mostly made by Hughes & Kimber, and mostly thought to date from 1887. These included other London subjects (i.e. Melon Shop, Houndsditch [355], Nut Shop, St James's Place, Houndsditch [356], Exeter Street [274], Gray's Inn Place [281]), as well as Jubilee plates (i.e. Troopships [307]), and etchings done in Brussels (i.e. The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels [346]) and Paris (i.e. Greengrocer's Shop, Paris [471]).
It was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to his sister-in-law 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 upper left corner.