UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Tilbury

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1933.214)
Number: 312
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 83 x 179 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 10
Catalogues: K.317; M.312
Impressions taken from this plate  (10)
Etching: PK317_01 (plate)
Recto, above; verso, below:
Etching: PK317_02 (plate)
As with several of the 'Naval Review' copper plates (Dry Docks, Southampton [302], Bunting [304], The Turret Ship [305], Troopships [307], Her Majesty's Fleet: Evening [310] and Tilbury [312]), this bears on the verso the oval stamp of 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'
The Tilbury 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 from the top, near the left corner, to the bottom, to left of centre.