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Fish Women, Ostend

Impression: Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
(2013.349)
Number: 349
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 96 x 133 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 3
Catalogues: K.349; M.349
Impressions taken from this plate  (3)
Etching: PK349_01 (plate)
On the verso is the oval stamp of Whistler's favourite suppliers. 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' Copper plates of similar size, with the same stamp, include J.H. Woods' Fruit Shop, Chelsea [327], Gates, City, London [280] and Marbles [270]. They probably date from earlier in the same year.
Plates of similar size and date, but not bearing the Hughes & Kimber stamp, include The Rag Shop, Milman's Row [290], Petticoat Lane [299], Doorway, Gray's Inn [289] and Doorway, Sandwich [323].
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 across the lower right corner.