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Rag Shop, Milman's Row, Chelsea |  Hunterian Art Gallery (54876) | |
| Number: | 329 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 153 x 229 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper right | |
| Inscribed: | illegible inscription at lower left | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 12 | |
| Catalogues: | K.272; M.267 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (12) | ||
The plate has no maker's stamp, but it was among the basic sizes provided by Hughes & Kimber (see for instance, Rochester Row, Westminster
[383] and Clothes-Exchange, Houndsditch. No. 2
[359]). It is of a size very popular with Whistler (another Chelsea subject of the same size is Merton Villa, Chelsea
[381]).
The copper plate remained in Whistler's estate and was given to the University of Glasgow by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower right corner.