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Stables |  Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la photographie (Rés EC 123 Folio 3) | |
| Number: | 228 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 167 x 236 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.225; M.222; W.198 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
The copper plate has no maker's stamp and is different in size from any other plate. It was probably made in Italy by a local craftsman. 8
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). It was printed at her request by Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956) in 1931, before being cancelled with one diagonal line across the lower left corner. 9 Miss Philip gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935.
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). It was printed at her request by Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956) in 1931, before being cancelled with one diagonal line across the lower left corner. 9 Miss Philip gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935.
9: Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340-341, 349 (mis-identified as Gondola under a Bridge [227]).