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House of the Swan, Brussels | ||
Number: | 337 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 178 x 66 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at lower centre | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 2 | |
Catalogues: | K.363; M.360 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (2) |
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate of House of the Swan, Brussels has no maker's mark, but is the same size as a plate made by Hughes & Kimber, which was used in a horizontal format for Dry Docks, Southampton
[302], in the same year, 1887.
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and 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, from the centre of the bottom edge to the centre of the right edge.