UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

St James Street decorated with bunting

Impression: Whistler Etchings Project
Whistler Etchings Project
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Number: 326
Date: 1887/1888
Medium: etching
Size: 133 x 98 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 1
Catalogues: K.-; M.-; T.-; W.-
Impressions taken from this plate  (1)
Etching: PE14_01 (plate)
A copper plate, possibly this, was listed as 'St James Street Aug 12 1887/ 5 1/4 x 3 3/4'. 4 This would mean a copper plate of about 135 x 97mm. It was close in size to a number of London plates, including Marbles [270], Petticoat Lane [299], The Young Tree [285] and Doorway, Gray's Inn [289], all of which date from 1887.

4: Whistler, list, [August 1887/1888], GUW #13233.

The copper plate of St James Street decorated with bunting was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). Miss Philip gave the plate to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower right corner.