UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

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Petite Rue au Beurre, Brussels

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1917.582)
Number: 341
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 135 x 99 mm
Signed: butterfly at right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 3
Catalogues: K.364; M.363
Impressions taken from this plate  (3)
Etching: PK364_01 (plate)
The copper plate is the same or close in size to a number of plates used by Whistler, including Resting by the Stove [372], which dates from about 1887, and also many plates etched in the following year, including The Hangman's House, Tours [393], Place Daumont, Tours [390], The Market, Bruges [354], and Café Luxembourg [436].
The copper plate of Petite Rue au Beurre, 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 bottom left corner.