UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The copper plate has no maker's mark. However, Whistler etched a lot of plates of the same size, mostly from the same maker, Hughes & Kimber, including London scenes (i.e. Nut Shop, St James's Place, Houndsditch [356]), Queen Victoria's Jubilee subjects (i.e. The Visitors' Boat [303]), studies of models (i.e. Cameo, No. 1 (Mother and Child) [459]), and a view of Brussels (The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels [346]), most of which date from 1887.

Also in the same size are views done on the Whistler's honeymoon in the Loire valley in 1888 (i.e. Little Market Place, Tours [389]) and others in Amsterdam in 1889 and in Paris (Little Drawbridge, Amsterdam [448], Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens [443]).

The copper 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 left corner.