UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Jubilee Place, Chelsea

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46627)
Number: 276
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 143 x 222 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 7
Catalogues: K.274; M.327
Impressions taken from this plate  (7)
Etching: PK274_01 (plate)
Recto, above; verso, below:
Etching: PK274_02 (plate)
The copper plate does not have a maker's mark. It is the same size as The Fleet: Monitors [306] and Her Majesty's Fleet: Evening [310], which both date from 1887. The latter bears the oval stamp of Hughes & Kimber, London copper merchants. Also close in size are the plates for The Cock and the Pump [321], and two Brussels etchings, Palaces, Brussels [338] (also a Hughes & Kimber plate) and Grand'Place, Brussels [335]. The original large copper sheets were probably stamped before being cut into smaller sizes. Thus some Hughes & Kimber plates do not have a stamp on the verso. Given the consistency in size of these etchings from 1887, it seems likely they were all made by Hughes & Kimber.
The copper plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), and given by her to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower left corner.