Swinburne |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.256) | |
| Number: | 108 | |
| Date: | 1873/1877 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 280 x 190 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 18 | |
| Catalogues: | K.136; M.134; W.110 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (18) | ||
The copper plate bears the maker's rectangular stamp: 'HUGHES AND KIMBER / MANUFACTURERS / RED LION PASSAGE / FLEET STREET / LONDON'. It is very close in size to A Man Reading [107]. It was cancelled with numerous diagonal lines over the image.
The cancelled plate was probably among those bought at Whistler's bankruptcy sale by the Fine Art Society, London. It was published in an album of Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by The Fine Art Society, London, 1879.
The copper plate was probably among those acquired in exchange for lithographs from Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851), by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). 8 The plate was given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow in 1935.
8: Note by R. Birnie Philip, inserted in the album, Hunterian Art Gallery.