UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Recto, above; verso, below:

The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' Whistler etched a lot of plates of the same size, mostly from the same maker, including London scenes (i.e. Melon Shop, Houndsditch [355]), Queen Victoria's Jubilee subjects (i.e. Troopships [307]), studies of models (i.e. Cameo, No. 1 (Mother and Child) [459]), and a view of Brussels (The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels [346]), most of which date from 1887. Also in the same size are other views done on the Whistler's honeymoon in the Loire valley (Little Market Place, Tours [389], Château de Verneuil, Touraine [408]) and in subsequent years in Amsterdam and Paris (i.e. Little Drawbridge, Amsterdam [448]).

The 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 right corner.