UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Recto, above; verso, below:

The copper plate is close in size to a number of plates that bear the same rectangular maker's stamp, 'HUGHES AND KIMBER / MANUFACTURERS / RED LION PASSAGE / FLEET STREET / LONDON'. These date from between about 1859 until well into the 1870s, and include Whistler with a hat [44], Fumette's Bent Head [58], Mr Mann [73], Axenfeld [68], Riault (The Wood Engraver) [69] and Brushing the Hair [94].

The cancelled copper plate was probably among plates bought at Whistler's bankruptcy sale by the Fine Art Society, London. It was published in the set of Cancelled Plates by the Fine Art Society in 1879.

The copper plate was probably among those acquired from Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851), by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who explained: 'A number of these plates were returned to me after the artist's death by Robert Dunthorne of Vigo Street, London in exchange for a number of lithographic proofs'. 2 The plate was given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow in 1935.