UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The Little Wheelwright's

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46892)
Number: 261
Date: 1886
Medium: etching
Size: 66 x 98 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 13
Catalogues: K.245; M.242
Impressions taken from this plate  (13)
The copper plate has not been located. The copper plate was close in size to Barges, Dordrecht [262] and to several plates dating from 1886 and 1887 including Church Door, Edgware [291], Butcher's Shop, Sandwich, Kent [320], The Abbey Jubilee [296] and Children's Fruit Barrow [347].
It was almost certainly printed after Whistler's death, possibly by Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938). In a draft catalogue of Whistler's etchings, Joseph Pennell (1860-1926) wrote 'Mr Menpes owns this plate.' 5

5: J. Pennell, n.d., draft catalogue (cat. no. 246), Library of Congress, Pennell Collection, Box. 353.