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Riault (The Wood Engraver) |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.305) | |
| Number: | 69 | |
| Date: | 1860 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 230 x 154 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | '1860.' at lower right | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 22 | |
| Catalogues: | K.65; M.65; T.58; W.62 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (22) | ||
The copper plate bears the rectangular stamp of 'HUGHES & KIMBER / MANUFACTURERS/ RED LION SQUARE / FLEET STREET / LONDON'. The same stamp appears on three Thames plates of 1859 of the same size, Thames Police
[53], Stevens' Boat Yard
[56] and Black Lion Wharf
[54] and on several portraits, all of 1859-1860. 15
The copper plate was cancelled with deep diagonal lines from left to right and right to left across the figure. The cancelled plate was probably among those bought at Whistler's bankruptcy sale by the Fine Art Society, London. It was published in an album of Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by the F.A.S. in 1879.
The copper plate was cancelled with deep diagonal lines from left to right and right to left across the figure. The cancelled plate was probably among those bought at Whistler's bankruptcy sale by the Fine Art Society, London. It was published in an album of Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by the F.A.S. in 1879.
The copper plate was probably among those acquired from Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851), by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who explained, 'A number of these plates were returned to me after the artist's death by Robert Dunthorne of Vigo Street, London in exchange for a number of lithographic proofs'. 16
16: Note by R. Birnie Philip, inserted in the album, Hunterian Art Gallery.
The plate was later given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow in 1935.