The Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens, No. 2 |  Hunterian Art Gallery (49910) | |
| Number: | 444 | |
| Date: | 1889/1890 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 128 x 178 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.426; M.423 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is the same size as a large number of plates including
London scenes (i.e. Nut Shop, St James's Place, Houndsditch [356]), Jubilee subjects
(i.e. The Visitors' Boat [303]), views on the continent (i.e. The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels [346], Little Drawbridge, Amsterdam [448]), on Whistler's honeymoon (i.e. Château de Verneuil, Touraine [408]) and a couple of figure subjects
(i.e. Cameo, No. 1 (Mother and Child) [459]). Most of these date from 1887 or 1888 and the Amsterdam plate from 1889. However, a small group of similar sized Paris subjects (this, Greengrocer's Shop, Paris [471],
Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens [443] and
Bébés, Jardin du Luxembourg [463]) may date from later.
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.