Nut Shop, St James's Place, Houndsditch |  Art Institute of Chicago (1917.486) | |
| Number: | 356 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 128 x 178 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left and (faint) at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 5 | |
| Catalogues: | K.291; M.285 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (5) | ||
The copper plate has no maker's mark.
Whistler etched a lot of plates of the same size, including London scenes (i.e. Cutler Street, Houndsditch [361],
Melon Shop, Houndsditch [355],
Old Battersea Bridge, No. 2 [275]), Queen Victoria's Jubilee subjects (i.e.Troopships [307]), studies of models (Cameo, No. 1 (Mother and Child) [459]), and a Belgian scene (The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels [346]), most of which date from 1887.
The plate 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 upper right corner.