The Scotch Widow |  New York Public Library (MEZAP) | |
| Number: | 147 | |
| Date: | 1875/1876 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 205 x 103 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 18 | |
| Catalogues: | K.142; M.140; W.118 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (18) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate bears the maker's rectangular stamp: 'HUGHES AND KIMBER / MANUFACTURERS / RED LION PASSAGE / FLEET STREET / LONDON'. The plate is not close in size to any other plate. It is an unusually narrow plate. It was cancelled with diagonal and zig-zag lines.
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 acquired from Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) in exchange for lithographs. 6 The plate was given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow in 1935.
6: Note by R. Birnie Philip, inserted in the album, Hunterian Art Gallery.