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Melon Shop, Houndsditch

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46630)
Number: 355
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 128 x 178 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 5
Known impressions: 10
Catalogues: K.293; M.288
Impressions taken from this plate  (10)
Etching: PK293_01 (plate)
This is one of a batch of copper plates of identical size bought from Hughes & Kimber, and bearing on the verso their oval stamp: ''HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'. Most date from 1887 (i.e. T. A. Nash's Greengrocer's Shop [298], Shaving and Shampooing [442], Cutler Street, Houndsditch [361], Exeter Street [274]). Two unstamped plates of the same size, Nut Shop, St James's Place, Houndsditch [356] and The Visitors' Boat [303], dating from 1887, probably come from the same source. Three date from the following year, 1888 and one perhaps from later. 10

10: The Door of the Chapel, Montrésor [422], The Clock Tower - Amboise [429], Little Market Place, Tours [389]; The Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens, No. 2 [444]

The Melon Shop, Houndsditch plate 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 corner.