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Dipping the Flag

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46937)
Number: 308
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 82 x 178 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 10
Catalogues: K.325; M.319; W.242
Impressions taken from this plate  (10)
Etching: PK325_01 (plate)
The copper plate for Dipping the Flag is similar in size to Savoy Scaffolding [317], St James's Place, Houndsditch [255] and St James's Place, Houndsditch [255], all of which date from 1887.
The plate remained in Whistler's possession 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.