UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Regent's Quadrant dates from 1880 or 1881. The butterfly signature is consistent with this date. According to the Pennells it was done after Whistler's return from Venice:

'while he was living in Air Street, ... a signed proof once was brought to us by his landlady, who called it an original drawing, and said it had been made out of her window ... many [London etchings] are most delightfully composed, while the detail in the little figures is full of observation. The subjects show that they were rapidly done.' 1

Few etchings date from this period, because Whistler was engaged in proving and printing the Venetian etchings. However, similar subjects of this date include Drury Lane [243], Little Court [244], The Temple [245] and Alderney Street [246].