Cameo, No. 1 (Mother and Child) |  Hunterian Art Gallery (44507) | |
| Number: | 459 | |
| Date: | 1891 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 178 x 128 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 15 | |
| Catalogues: | K.347; M.333; W.224 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (15) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' Whistler etched a lot of plates of the same size, mostly from the same maker, including another study of the same model (Cameo, No. 2 [460]), London scenes (i.e.Melon Shop, Houndsditch [355]), Queen Victoria's Jubilee (i.e. The Visitors' Boat [303]) and a view of Brussels (The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels [346]), most of which date from 1887. Also in the same size are views done on the Whistler's honeymoon in the Loire valley and in subsequent years in Amsterdam and Paris (i.e. Greengrocer's Shop, Paris [471]).
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. The plate was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower left corner.