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Hurlingham |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46796) | |
| Number: | 184 | |
| Date: | 1879 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 137 x 201 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | Printseller's Association, 1879. | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 49 | |
| Catalogues: | K.181; M.178; W.147 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (49) | ||
Hurlingham was etched in January 1879. It was published by Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832), for The Printsellers' Association in January 1879.
Whistler, whose affairs were in a dire financial state, was in fear of the bailiffs arriving to take his property as settlement for his debts. He wrote to his lawyer, James Anderson Rose (1819-1890):
'do send someone over to Lewis or Levy the first thing tomorrow - I am so afraid that they may come down upon me in the course of the day - and if I can get over into next week I believe it will be all right - for I have been getting on with some etching plates today that I am sure McLean will take directly they are finished - (keep it dark though - or they might seize the plates before I can get them out of my hands) - ' 1
1: Whistler to J. A. Rose, 23 January 1879, GUW #08759.