UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is the same size as a large number of plates including London scenes (i.e. Melon Shop, Houndsditch [355], Cutler Street, Houndsditch [361]), Jubilee subjects (i.e. The Visitors' Boat [303]), views on the continent (i.e. The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels [346]), from Whistler's honeymoon (i.e. Little Market Place, Tours [389]) and a couple of figure subjects (i.e. Cameo, No. 1 (Mother and Child) [459]). Most of these date from 1887 or 1888 but a small group of similar sized Paris subjects (this, Greengrocer's Shop, Paris [471], Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens [443], The Little Terrace, Luxembourg Gardens, No. 2 [444]) appear to date from later, in the early 1890s.

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 left corner.