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Children, Portsmouth | ||
Number: | 301 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 67 x 99 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 6 | |
Catalogues: | K.323; M.311 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (6) |
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate was stamped twice - rather faintly - with the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'
Several copper plates dated to 1887 are the same size, including another Jubilee subject,
The Abbey Jubilee
[296], and several London scenes (e.g. St James's Park
[250] and The Bonnet-Shop
[254])
as well as other English (e.g. Cottage Door
[252],
Butcher's Shop, Sandwich, Kent
[320]) and Belgian subjects (e.g. Children's Fruit Barrow
[347]).
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was given to the Univerity of Glasgow by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower left corner.