UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Alderney Street

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(54863)
Number: 246
Date: 1881
Medium: etching
Size: 180 x 113 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Gazette des Beaux-Arts', 1881
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 35
Catalogues: K.238; M.236; W.196
Impressions taken from this plate  (35)
Etching: PK238_01 (plate)
The plate has no maker's mark and is a different size from any other plate; it has a slight, 2mm, bevel, and the corners are not entirely square. The inscription of the publisher, Alfred Cadart (1828-1875), was presumably removed by Whistler before 1887, when he printed a few more impressions. He recorded the copper plate as being in his possession in 1887/1888. 11

11: GUW #13233.

It was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), and cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower right corner. She gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935.