UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Recto, above; verso, below:

The copper plate has an oval maker's stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'

It is close in size to a lot of plates that date from 1887 including other London scenes - for instance Cutler Street, Houndsditch [361]; other Jubilee subjects - such as The Visitors' Boat [303]nd Bunting [304]; as well as several dating from 1888 - such as Little Market Place, Tours [389], The Clock Tower - Amboise [429]; and from later years, etchings such as Little Drawbridge, Amsterdam [448] and Bébés, Jardin du Luxembourg [463]. Most of these were also acquired from Hughes & Kimber.

The plate was bequeathed by Whistler to 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 lower left corner.