Etchings Institutions search term: grolier club
T. A. Nash's Greengrocer's Shop | ||
Number: | 298 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 178 x 126 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 5 | |
Known impressions: | 10 | |
Catalogues: | K.263; M.260; W.215 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (10) |
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'
It is close in size to several etchings dating from 1887 and 1888 including After the Sale, Clothes Exchange, Houndsditch
[357],
Gray's Inn Place
[281],
Wheelwright
[240], Bunting
[304], Hôtel de la Croix Blanche
[395] and The Clock Tower - Amboise
[429].
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 a diagonal line across the lower right corner.