Etchings Institutions search term: grolier club
After the Sale, Clothes Exchange, Houndsditch |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46907) | |
| Number: | 357 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 127 x 177 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 5 | |
| Catalogues: | K.294; M.289 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (5) | ||
The copper plate has no maker's mark. It was close in size to many other plates, mostly made by Hughes & Kimber, and mostly thought to date from 1887. These included other London subjects (i.e.
Melon Shop, Houndsditch
[355], Nut Shop, St James's Place, Houndsditch
[356],
Exeter Street
[274], Gray's Inn Place
[281]), as well as
Jubilee plates (i.e. Troopships
[307]), and etchings done in Brussels (i.e. The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels
[346]) and Paris (i.e. Greengrocer's Shop, Paris
[471]).
It was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to his sister-in-law 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 upper left corner.