UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The copper plate is the same size as Pickle Herring Wharf [164] and close in size to several other Thames etchings, some much earlier (Thames Police [53], Longshore men [52], Black Lion Wharf [54]) and to both figurative and city-scape subjects of the 1870s (such as Speke Hall: The Avenue [101], Maud, Standing [169], The Little Forge, Liverpool [141], and Price's Candle Factory [166]).

The copper plate was cancelled with widely spaced crossed diagonal lines. The cancelled plate was probably among those 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 plate was probably among those acquired in exchange for lithographs from Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). 8 The plate was given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow in 1935.