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Nocturne Shipping |  Hunterian Art Gallery (53568) | |
| Number: | 206 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 157 x 222 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 5 | |
| Known impressions: | 8 | |
| Catalogues: | K.223; M.220; W.194 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (8) | ||
The copper plate has no maker's mark and is a different size from any other plate. It was probably made for Whistler in Venice. 8
8: Getscher 1970 .
It was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with one diagonal line across the lower left corner.