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Renaissance Window |  Freer Gallery of Art (1894.21) | |
| Number: | 417 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 179 x 128 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.390; M.391 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
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 large number of plates dating from 1887 (i.e.
The Turret Ship
[305],
The Ramparts, Sandwich
[324],
The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels
[346],
Melon Shop, Houndsditch
[355]) and 1888 (i.e. Little Market Place, Tours
[389],
The Door of the Chapel, Montrésor
[422]).
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. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line from above centre left to just left of the the lower right corner.