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Shaving and Shampooing |  Art Institute of Chicago (1917.480) | |
| Number: | 442 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 178 x 129 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 4 | |
| Catalogues: | K.273; M.269 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (4) | ||
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'
It is close in size to a large number of plates including another London view (Cutler Street, Houndsditch
[361]), one Jubilee naval scene (The Visitors' Boat
[303]), figure subjects (i.e. Cameo, No. 1 (Mother and Child)
[459]) and several continental scenes (i.e. Fishing Quay, Ostend
[351], Little Drawbridge, Amsterdam
[448]). These date from between 1887 and 1889.
It was in Whistler's studio at his death in 1903, bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), and given by her to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower right corner.