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The Beach, Hastings |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.253) | |
| Number: | 150 | |
| Date: | 1875/1878 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 160 x 235 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 20 | |
| Catalogues: | K.116; M.100; W.101 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (20) | ||
It was cancelled with widely spaced crossed diagonal lines. The cancelled copper plate was probably among 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 Fine Art Society in London in 1879.
The copper plate was probably among those acquired from Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851), by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), in exchange for lithographs. 11 The plate was given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow in 1935. She also gave two cancelled impressions (
, ) to the University.
, ) to the University.11: Note by R. Birnie Philip, inserted in the album, Hunterian Art Gallery.