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Gold House, Brussels |  Art Institute of Chicago (1934.640) | |
| Number: | 336 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 179 x 67 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 4 | |
| Catalogues: | K.360; M.359 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (4) | ||
The copper plate for Gold House, Brussels has no maker's mark. It is the same as or close in size to three other Belgian plates, Flower Market, Brussels
[339], House of the Swan, Brussels
[337], and
The Canal, Ostend
[352] and to two other 1887 plates,
The Steps, Gray's Inn
[282] and
Dry Docks, Southampton
[302], which all share the narrow elongated format. In Brussels the format emphasizes tall, narrow buildings, and in several other plates, a panoramic vista.
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, reaching from near the lower left corner to above centre at right.