After the Sale, Clothes Exchange, Houndsditch | ||
Number: | 357 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 127 x 177 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 5 | |
Catalogues: | K.294; M.289 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (5) |
The copper plate has no maker's mark. It was close in size to many other plates, mostly made by Hughes & Kimber, and mostly thought to date from 1887. These included other London subjects (i.e.
Melon Shop, Houndsditch [355], Nut Shop, St James's Place, Houndsditch [356],
Exeter Street [274], Gray's Inn Place [281]), as well as
Jubilee plates (i.e. Troopships [307]), and etchings done in Brussels (i.e. The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels [346]) and Paris (i.e. Greengrocer's Shop, Paris [471]).
It was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to his sister-in-law 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 upper left corner.