'Venus' (Nettie Pettigrew) | ||
Number: | 363 | |
Date: | 1887/1890 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 191 x 267 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 7 | |
Catalogues: | K.343; M.341 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (7) |
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate has the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' They were Whistler's main suppliers but the size is not like that of any other plate.
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 at right.