House of the Swan, Brussels |  Art Institute of Chicago (1934.637) | |
| Number: | 337 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 178 x 66 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower centre | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.363; M.360 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate of House of the Swan, Brussels has no maker's mark, but is the same size as a plate made by Hughes & Kimber, which was used in a horizontal format for Dry Docks, Southampton [302], in the same year, 1887.
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and 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 lower right corner, from the centre of the bottom edge to the centre of the right edge.