UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

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Bridge, Amsterdam

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1906.119)
Number: 447
Date: 1889
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 165 x 241 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 5
Known impressions: 13
Catalogues: K.409; M.409; W.267
Impressions taken from this plate  (13)
Etching: PK409_01 (plate)
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is close in size to several plates including Rag Shop [380], and The Steps, Amsterdam [452].
It was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). The plate was in good condition and she authorised Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956) to print proofs. 9 The plate was then cancelled with a diagonal line across the lower left corner. She gave the plate to the University of Glasgow in 1935.

9: Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340, 345, 352.