UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Emanuel Hospital

Impression:

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Number: 469
Date: 1892
Medium: etching (?)
Size: 140 x 220 mm
Signed: unknown
Inscribed: unknown
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 0
Catalogues: K.-; M.-; T.-; W.-
Impressions taken from this plate  (0)

TECHNIQUE

This was an etching but no impression has been located.

PRINTING

Whistler wrote: 'The Emanuel Hospital is not yet bitten in - but you may tell your friend that he shall have put aside for him one of the early proofs...' 21 The plate was then etched but no proofs by Whistler have been located.

21: Whistler to W. Heinemann, [October 1892], GUW #10789.

Comparative image
In 1931 Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956) recorded printing 'Three Proofs' at the request of Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), on paper from Whistler's collection, one sheet without a watermark and the others with watermarks 'R.R.' and 'G.R.' 22 He made two sketches of the etching, one of which is reproduced above. None of his impressions has been located and it is possible that they were destroyed.

22: Note dated 18 June 1931, 94-120-145-3 (f.8); see Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Spark's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, p. 340 et seq.