UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The Japanese Dress

Impression: Library of Congress
Library of Congress
(FP-XIX-W576, no. 337)
Number: 371
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 100 x 68 mm
Signed: butterfly at right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.337; M.335
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)
Etching: PK337_01 (plate)
The copper plate has the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'
It is the same size as Cottage Door [252], St James's Park [250] and Gypsy Baby [373]. It is also close in size to ten more plates including The Menpes Children [300], The Baby, Gray's Inn [288], The Fur Tippet: Miss Lenoir [365], The Little Hat [366], Theatre, Loches [418] and Marchande de Vin, Ajaccio [485]. These vary widely in date, from 1887 to 1901.
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 lower right corner.