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The Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens, No. 2

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(49910)
Number: 444
Date: 1889/1890
Medium: etching
Size: 128 x 178 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.426; M.423
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)
Etching: PK426_01 (plate)
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is the same size as a large number of plates including London scenes (i.e. Nut Shop, St James's Place, Houndsditch [356]), Jubilee subjects (i.e. The Visitors' Boat [303]), views on the continent (i.e. The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels [346], Little Drawbridge, Amsterdam [448]), on Whistler's honeymoon (i.e. Château de Verneuil, Touraine [408]) and a couple of figure subjects (i.e. Cameo, No. 1 (Mother and Child) [459]). Most of these date from 1887 or 1888 and the Amsterdam plate from 1889. However, a small group of similar sized Paris subjects (this, Greengrocer's Shop, Paris [471], Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens [443] and Bébés, Jardin du Luxembourg [463]) may date from later.
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. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower right corner.