Grand'Place, Brussels |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.246) | |
| Number: | 335 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 222 x 143 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 15 | |
| Catalogues: | K.362; M.354; W.251 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (15) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate is the same as or close in size to The Cock and the Pump [321], The Fleet: Monitors [306], Jubilee Place, Chelsea [276] and to two plates bearing the oval stamp of Hughes & Kimber (Palaces, Brussels [338], Her Majesty's Fleet: Evening [310]). 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 for Grand'Place, Brussels 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 lower left corner.