UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Renaissance Window

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1894.21)
Number: 417
Date: 1888
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 179 x 128 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.390; M.391
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)
Etching: PK390_01 (plate)
Recto, above; verso, below:
Etching: PK390_02 (plate)
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is close in size to a large number of plates dating from 1887 (i.e. The Turret Ship [305], The Ramparts, Sandwich [324], The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels [346], Melon Shop, Houndsditch [355]) and 1888 (i.e. Little Market Place, Tours [389], The Door of the Chapel, Montrésor [422]).
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 from above centre left to just left of the the lower right corner.