UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Exeter Street

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(54892)
Number: 274
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 128 x 177 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 6
Catalogues: K.280; M.275
Impressions taken from this plate  (6)
Etching: PK280_01 (plate)
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' Several plates of London scenes are close in size, including Petticoat Lane [299], The Young Tree [285] and Doorway, Gray's Inn [289], as well as other town and seaside subjects, such as Doorway, Sandwich [323], The Landing Stage, Cowes [309], Binding the Hair [334] and Fish Women, Ostend [349].
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death in 1903 and 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.