UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

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Booth at a Fair

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1903.40)
Number: 257
Date: 1886
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 133 x 98 mm
Signed: butterfly at right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 6
Catalogues: K.249; M.245; W.203
Impressions taken from this plate  (6)
Etching: PK249_01 (plate)
The copper plate has no maker's mark. It is similar in size to several London etchings, including Gates, City, London [280], Marbles [270], The Little Nurse, Grays Inn [286] and Charing Cross Bridge [348], and Jubilee Naval review etchings (i.e. Return to Tilbury [311]) all dating from 1887.
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.