Her Majesty's Fleet: Evening |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46957) | |
| Number: | 310 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 144 x 223 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 7 | |
| Catalogues: | K.326; M.320; W.243 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (7) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The Fleet: Monitors [306] is the same size as Jubilee Place, Chelsea [276] and Her Majesty's Fleet: Evening [310]. The latter bears the oval stamp of Hughes & Kimber, London copper merchants. Also close in size are the plates for The Cock and the Pump [321], and two Brussels etchings, Palaces, Brussels [338] (also a Hughes & Kimber plate) and Grand'Place, Brussels [335], all dating from 1887.
The original large copper sheets were probably stamped before being cut into smaller sizes. Thus some Hughes & Kimber plates do not have a stamp on the verso. Given the consistency in size of these etchings from 1887, it seems likely they were all made by Hughes & Kimber.
The copper plate was in Whistler's estate and passed 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.