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Regent's Quadrant | ||
Number: | 242 | |
Date: | 1880/1881 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 166 x 122 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 7 | |
Known impressions: | 10 | |
Catalogues: | K.239; M.235; W.192 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (10) |
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'
It was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower left foreground