Melon Shop, Houndsditch |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46630) | |
| Number: | 355 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 128 x 178 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 5 | |
| Known impressions: | 10 | |
| Catalogues: | K.293; M.288 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (10) | ||
This is one of a batch of copper plates of identical size bought from Hughes & Kimber, and bearing on the verso their oval stamp: ''HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'. Most date from 1887 (i.e. T. A. Nash's Greengrocer's Shop [298], Shaving and Shampooing [442],
Cutler Street, Houndsditch [361], Exeter Street [274]). Two unstamped plates of the same size, Nut Shop, St James's Place, Houndsditch [356] and The Visitors' Boat [303], dating from 1887, probably come from the same source. Three date from the following year, 1888 and one perhaps from later. 10
The Melon Shop, Houndsditch 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 left corner.