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J.H. Woods' Fruit Shop, Chelsea |  Freer Gallery of Art (1888.20) | |
| Number: | 327 | |
| Date: | 1887/1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 98 x 133 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 4 | |
| Catalogues: | K.265; M.261 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (4) | ||
The copper plate has the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'
It is close in size to the plates for Booth at a Fair
[257],
St James Street decorated with bunting
[326] and Marbles
[270],
and similar to several others including
Gates, City, London
[280],
The Little Nurse, Grays Inn
[286],
Charing Cross Bridge
[348],
Return to Tilbury
[311] and Windsor Castle
[314], all dating from about 1887.
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death. It 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.