UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The copper plate is close in size to that bearing the portrait of Elinor's sister, Florence Leyland [136], and to a few slightly later plates including Temple Bar [175] and Steamboat Fleet, Chelsea [155].

It was cancelled with light diagonal lines of burnishing across the figure. It was probably among cancelled plates 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., 1879.

The copper plate was probably among those acquired from Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851), in exchange for lithographs, by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). 10 The plate was given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow in 1935.