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A Lady at a Window |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.257) | |
| Number: | 148 | |
| Date: | 1875/1877 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 235 x 160 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right (3-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 19 | |
| Catalogues: | K.138; M.135 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (19) | ||
The copper plate has no maker's stamp. It is the same size as The Piano
[144], which was stamped: 'HUGHES & KIMBER / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'.
It was cancelled with light 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) in exchange for lithographs, by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). 8 The plate was given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow in 1935.
8: Note by R. Birnie Philip, inserted in the album, Hunterian Art Gallery.