UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

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Charing Cross Bridge

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1934.623)
Number: 348
Date: 1887/1888
Medium: etching
Size: 133 x 97 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 5
Catalogues: K.310; M.306
Impressions taken from this plate  (5)
Etching: PK310_01 (plate)
The copper plate has no maker's stamp but was probably bought from Hughes & Kimber, who made several of the other plates of the same size.
The plate is close in size to Gates, City, London [280], The Little Nurse, Grays Inn [286], Return to Tilbury [311], Booth at a Fair [257], St James Street decorated with bunting [326], The Landing Stage, Cowes [309] and Fish Women, Ostend [349], all of which date from 1887.
The plate remained in Whistler's studio until 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.