The Baby, Gray's Inn |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.151) | |
| Number: | 288 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 100 x 67 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.298; M.295 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
The Baby, Gray's Inn probably dates from 1887. The butterfly signature is consistent with this date. Given that it shows children seated on the grass it probably dates from the summer of 1887. In that summer Whistler worked in Gray's Inn on a number of etchings that are considered to form the 'Grey's Inn Set' including The Young Tree [285].
However it could possibly date from April 1888, and was first sold in May 1888. 1
However it could possibly date from April 1888, and was first sold in May 1888. 1
1: Wunderlich's to Whistler, 3 May 1888, GUW #07158.