Man Fishing |  Whistler Etchings Project (-) | |
| Number: | 404 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 220 x 131 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 1 | |
| Catalogues: | K.-; M.-; T.-; W.- | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (1) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
On the verso the copper plate bears the oval maker's mark of 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' who were Whistler's favourite suppliers. This stamp is on another etching of the same size, Court of the Monastery of St. Augustine, Bourges [403], dating from 1888 and on one that is very close in size, Zaandam [458], dated a year later, 1889. Other etchings of the same size but without the stamp are Mairie, Loches [413] and Notre-Dame, Bourges [402] of 1888, and Church, Amsterdam [445] of 1889.
The copper plate 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. The plate was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line from centre bottom to centre right.