UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Charing Cross Bridge

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1934.623)
Number: 348
Date: 1887/1888
Medium: etching
Size: 133 x 97 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 5
Catalogues: K.310; M.306
Impressions taken from this plate  (5)
Charing Cross Bridge dates from 1887 or early 1888. The butterfly signature confirms this date. It was first mentioned by the News of the World on 11 March 1888. 1

Comparable subjects of this date include Custom House [179], Railway Arch, American Square [316] and Old Battersea Bridge, No. 2 [275].

1: 'Society of British Artists. - Sweney Relief Fund / Private View, Yesterday,' News of the World, 11 March 1888.