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The Cock and the Pump

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46914)
Number: 321
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 222 x 144 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 7
Catalogues: K.304; M.299; W.235
Impressions taken from this plate  (7)
Etching: PK304_01 (plate)
The copper plate has no maker's mark. The plate is close in size to the plates for two Brussels etchings, Palaces, Brussels [338] (a Hughes & Kimber plate) and Grand'Place, Brussels [335], and to Jubilee etchings, dating from 1887, including The Fleet: Monitors [306].
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.
It was in Whistler's estate and passed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935. The plate was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower left corner.