UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Little Putney Bridge

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1898.373)
Number: 186
Date: 1879
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 132 x 207 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right (2-final)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: Printseller's Association, 1879; F. Wedmore, 1883
No. of States: 5
Known impressions: 56
Catalogues: K.179; M.176; W.146
Impressions taken from this plate  (56)
Little Putney Bridge dates from 1879. It was being printed in August 1879. 1

It was stamped by the Printsellers' Association, and according to Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921) was published by the Fine Art Society in 1879 and later reissued in a publication by Wedmore in 1883. 2

Other Thames subjects of around 1879 include Old Putney Bridge [185], Old Battersea Bridge [188], The Little Putney [187] and Hurlingham [184].

1: Whistler, list, 14-15 August 1879, GUW #13019.

2: Wedmore 1886 A (cat. no. 146).