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High Street, Brussels |  Art Institute of Chicago (1924.661) | |
| Number: | 343 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 127 x 178 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left and right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 7 | |
| Catalogues: | K.358; M.357; W.254 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (7) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is close in size to a lot of plates used in 1887, including Jubilee subjects (e.g.
Wild West: The Orator
[294]), London views (e.g. Melon Shop, Houndsditch
[355]) and other views (e.g. The Ramparts, Sandwich
[324]).
It 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 lower right corner.