UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The copper plate has the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It was the same size as Sir Garnet Wolseley [177] (which dates from 1877) and close in size to F. R. Leyland [121] and Portrait sketches including F.R. Leyland and Whistler [122].

It was cancelled with horizontal and diagonal lines across the figure. 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, London, 1879.

The copper plate was probably among those acquired from Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851), by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), 'in exchange for a number of lithographic proofs'. 3 The plate was given by Miss Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow in 1935.