UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

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Marbles

Impression: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
(1943.3.8588)
Number: 270
Date: 1886/1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 133 x 98 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 5
Catalogues: K.284; M.280
Impressions taken from this plate  (5)
Etching: PK284_01 (plate)
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'
It is close in size to several etchings including Booth at a Fair [257], J.H. Woods' Fruit Shop, Chelsea [327], Gates, City, London [280], Charing Cross Bridge [348], The Little Nurse, Grays Inn [286] and Return to Tilbury [311], all of which date from between 1886 and 1888.
It 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 bottom half of the plate.