UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Children, Portsmouth

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1937.173)
Number: 301
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 67 x 99 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 6
Catalogues: K.323; M.311
Impressions taken from this plate  (6)
Etching: PK323_01 (plate)
Recto, above; verso, below:
Etching: PK323_02 (plate)
The copper plate was stamped twice - rather faintly - with the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'
Several copper plates dated to 1887 are the same size, including another Jubilee subject, The Abbey Jubilee [296], and several London scenes (e.g. St James's Park [250] and The Bonnet-Shop [254]) as well as other English (e.g. Cottage Door [252], Butcher's Shop, Sandwich, Kent [320]) and Belgian subjects (e.g. Children's Fruit Barrow [347]).
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was given to the Univerity of Glasgow by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower left corner.