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Zaandam |  Hunterian Art Gallery (49904) | |
| Number: | 458 | |
| Date: | 1889 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 131 x 221 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 16 | |
| Catalogues: | K.416; M.414; W.268 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (16) | ||
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is similar in size to several other plates of 1888 and 1889 including Court of the Monastery of St. Augustine, Bourges
[403],
Rue de la Rochefoucault
[434] and
Jews' Quarter, Amsterdam
[449], which bear the same maker's stamp, and Church, Amsterdam
[445],
which is not stamped but probably came from the same maker.
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death. It 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 at right.