Cameo, No. 2 |  Art Institute of Chicago (1934.554) | |
| Number: | 460 | |
| Date: | 1891 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 178 x 128 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 5 | |
| Catalogues: | K.348; M.334 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (5) | ||
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. 1 (Mother and Child) [459]), 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 in later years in the Loire valley, Amsterdam and Paris (i.e. Little Market Place, Tours [389], Greengrocer's Shop, Paris [471]).
The copper 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 bottom left corner.