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The Guitar Player (M.W. Ridley) |  Hunterian Art Gallery (47010) | |
| Number: | 124 | |
| Date: | 1874/1875 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 279 x 179 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 7 | |
| Known impressions: | 11 | |
| Catalogues: | K.140; M.138; W.122 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (11) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is a big plate and not similar in size to any other plate.
It was probably sold at the time of Whistler's bankruptcy, and bought by the Fine Art Society, London. Later it was probably among plates returned by Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) to Whistler's sister-in-law 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.