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Jubilee Place, Chelsea |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46627) | |
| Number: | 276 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 143 x 222 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 7 | |
| Catalogues: | K.274; M.327 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (7) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate does not have a maker's mark. It is the same size as The Fleet: Monitors
[306] and Her Majesty's Fleet: Evening
[310], which both date from 1887. The latter bears the oval stamp of Hughes & Kimber, London copper merchants. Also close in size are the plates for The Cock and the Pump
[321], and two Brussels etchings, Palaces, Brussels
[338] (also a Hughes & Kimber plate) and Grand'Place, Brussels
[335]. The original large copper sheets were probably stamped before being cut into smaller sizes. Thus some Hughes & Kimber plates do not have a stamp on the verso. Given the consistency in size of these etchings from 1887, it seems likely they were all made by Hughes & Kimber.
The copper plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was 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 left corner.