UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Recto, above; verso, below:

As with several of the 'Naval Review' copper plates, this bears the oval stamp of 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' (as do Dry Docks, Southampton [302], Bunting [304], The Turret Ship [305], Her Majesty's Fleet: Evening [310] and Tilbury [312]).

Whistler etched a lot of plates of the same size, mostly from the same maker, including London scenes (i.e. Old Battersea Bridge, No. 2 [275]), studies of models (i.e. Cameo, No. 1 (Mother and Child) [459]), and a view of Brussels (The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels [346]), most of which date from 1887.

The copper plates for the 'Jubilee Set' were in Whistler's studio in Paris in the 1890s, and returned to London when it was sold at the turn of the century. 9 The cancelled 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. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line at left.