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Savoy Scaffolding | ||
Number: | 317 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 178 x 82 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 11 | |
Catalogues: | K.267; M.263; W.217 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (11) |
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is close in size to several other plates used in 1886 or 1887:
Dipping the Flag
[308],
St James's Place, Houndsditch
[255],
The Long Seats, Gray's Inn
[283] and Salvation Army, Sandwich
[319].
The copper plate 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 left corner.