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Bird-Cages, Chelsea

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1937.172)
Number: 297
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 153 x 230 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 8
Catalogues: K.276; M.271
Impressions taken from this plate  (8)
Etching: PK276_01 (plate)
The copper plate has no maker's mark. It was similar in size to a number of plates including Price's Candle Factory [166], Lindsey Houses [161], Rag Shop, Milman's Row, Chelsea [329] and Merton Villa, Chelsea [381]. It may have been cancelled very lightly with crossed diagonal lines.
The 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.