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The Little Hat |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46954) | |
| Number: | 366 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 100 x 67 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 8 | |
| Catalogues: | K.335; M.331 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (8) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'
Etchings of similar small size include London subjects of around 1887 - including
St James's Park
[250], Wimpole Street
[279], and several figure subjects such as
The Fur Tippet: Miss Lenoir
[365],
The Japanese Dress
[371] and the The Menpes Children
[300] - as well as some French scenes etched in 1888, such as Theatre, Loches
[418].
The 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. The plate was cancelled posthumously, with a diagonal line from above centre on the left edge to above the lower right corner.