St James's Park |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46900) | |
| Number: | 250 | |
| Date: | 1885 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 68 x 100 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 5 | |
| Catalogues: | K.255; M.251; W.207 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (5) | ||
The copper plate bears the oval stamp of 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' These were Whistler's favourite suppliers of copper plates.
It is a very small plate, the same in size and stamp as several etchings including Gypsy Baby [373],
Cottage Door [252],
and The Japanese Dress [371]. It is also very close in size to The Fur Tippet: Miss Lenoir [365],
The Menpes Children [300],
Theatre, Loches [418],
Children's Fruit Barrow [347],
The Little Hat [366],
Wimpole Street [279],
The Baby, Gray's Inn [288],
Windows opposite Hotel, Bourges [397], and Head of Whistler [318], which all date from slightly 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 may have been cancelled lightly with diagonal lines, or these same marks may just be accidental scratches.