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Little Smithfield

Impression: Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
(061.2007)
Number: 154
Date: 1875
Medium: etching
Size: 136 x 99 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 7
Catalogues: K.160; M.157; W.78
Impressions taken from this plate  (7)
Little Smithfield probably dates from 1875.
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' This form of the stamp was used mainly between 1873 and 1875 (see for instance Shipbuilder's Yard, Liverpool [142]).
In subject and composition it can be compared to certain earlier etchings such as Stevens' Boat Yard [56] and later etchings such as Wych Street, London [176].