UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' Whistler etched a lot of plates of the same size, mostly from the same maker, including , another study of the same model (Cameo, No. 1 (Mother and Child) [459]), London scenes (i.e. Melon Shop, Houndsditch [355]), Queen Victoria's Jubilee (i.e. The Visitors' Boat [303]) and a view of Brussels (The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels [346]), most of which date from 1887. Also in the same size are views done in later years in the Loire valley, Amsterdam and Paris (i.e. Little Market Place, Tours [389], Greengrocer's Shop, Paris [471]).

The copper 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 across the bottom left corner.