UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Railway Arch, American Square

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1938.1922)
Number: 316
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 70 x 163 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 8
Catalogues: K.268; M.264; W.218
Impressions taken from this plate  (8)
Railway Arch, America Square probably dates from 1887. The butterfly signature is consistent with this date. Whistler had printed three impressions (or had three in stock) by 19 August 1887. 1

Other etchings of about this date include Exeter Street [274], Jubilee Place, Chelsea [276] and Double Doorway, Sandwich [322].

1: 19 August-26 September 1887, GUW #13234.