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Old Battersea Bridge, No. 2

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1917.494)
Number: 275
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 128 x 178 mm
Signed: butterfly at right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 4
Catalogues: K.311; M.305; W.225
Impressions taken from this plate  (4)
Old Battersea Bridge, No. 2 dates from 1887. The butterfly signature is consistent with this date. The first recorded sale was on 21 December 1887 to the London print dealer Thomas M. McLean (b. ca 1832). 1

1: GUW #13017.

Comparable subjects of around this date include Custom House [179], Railway Arch, American Square [316] and Charing Cross Bridge [348].