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The Steps, Amsterdam |  Freer Gallery of Art (1906.112) | |
| Number: | 452 | |
| Date: | 1889 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 242 x 166 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 5 | |
| Known impressions: | 14 | |
| Catalogues: | K.403; M.402; W.260 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (14) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is the same size as two recent London plates by the same maker, The Barber's Shop, Chelsea
[263] and Justice Walk, Chelsea
[441], and very close in size to another Dutch plate, Bridge, Amsterdam
[447].
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 across the lower right corner.