The Rag Shop, Milman's Row | ||
Number: | 290 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 96 x 164 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper centre | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 3 | |
Known impressions: | 9 | |
Catalogues: | K.258; M.254 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (9) |
The Rag Shop, Milman's Row dates from 1887. The butterfly signature on the copper plate and pencil butterflies on different impressions confirm a date of 1887 (i.e. ). Furthermore, it was close in size to another copper plate dated early 1887, Furniture Shop [278].
On 5 October 1887 Whistler sold an impression of 'The Rag shop / Chelsea', which may well have been this etching, to Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832). 1
1: GUW #13014.