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Little Nocturne, Amsterdam |  Hunterian Art Gallery (49903) | |
| Number: | 456 | |
| Date: | 1889 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 135 x 99 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 4 | |
| Catalogues: | K.414; M.413 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (4) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate has no maker's mark. It is the same size as a number of plates from the London firm of Hughes & Kimber including
Resting by the Stove
[372],
Gateway, Chartreuse, near Loches
[421],
Petite Rue au Beurre, Brussels
[341],
Place Daumont, Tours
[390],
The Hangman's House, Tours
[393] and
Château Touraine
[410], all of which date from 1887 and 1888.
It 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 above the lower right corner.