UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Nut Shop, St James's Place, Houndsditch

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1917.486)
Number: 356
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 128 x 178 mm
Signed: butterfly at left and (faint) at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 5
Catalogues: K.291; M.285
Impressions taken from this plate  (5)
Etching: PK291_01 (plate)
The copper plate has no maker's mark.
Whistler etched a lot of plates of the same size, including London scenes (i.e. Cutler Street, Houndsditch [361], Melon Shop, Houndsditch [355], Old Battersea Bridge, No. 2 [275]), Queen Victoria's Jubilee subjects (i.e.Troopships [307]), studies of models (Cameo, No. 1 (Mother and Child) [459]), and a Belgian scene (The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels [346]), most of which date from 1887.
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 was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the upper right corner.