UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

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The Mill

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1906.127)
Number: 457
Date: 1889
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 161 x 241 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 6
Known impressions: 13
Catalogues: K.413; M.415
Impressions taken from this plate  (13)
Etching: PK413_01 (plate)
The copper plate has no maker's mark. It is close in size to Clothes-Exchange, Houndsditch. No. 1 [358] (a Hughes & Kimber plate used in 1887) and Rag Shop [380] (which has no mark and is dated about 1889).
The copper 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 left corner.