Head of Whistler |  Whistler Etchings Project (-) | |
| Number: | 318 | |
| Date: | 1887/1892 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 99 x 68 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 1 | |
| Catalogues: | K.-; M.-; T.-; W.- | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (1) | ||
The copper plate is in the Hunterian Art Gallery. 3 It is close in size to several etchings that probably date from 1887 including
St James's Park [250], The Seamstress [253],
The Abbey Jubilee [296],
Church Door, Edgware [291], Butcher's Shop, Sandwich, Kent [320], and
Children, Portsmouth [301].
3: http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/exhibit (accessed 2009).
The copper plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). The plate was given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line.