Quai de Montebello |  Hunterian Art Gallery (49905) | |
| Number: | 385 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 152 x 230 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 9 | |
| Catalogues: | K.417; M.366 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (9) | ||
The copper plate does not have a maker's mark, but is close in size to a lot of Whistler's etchings including several London streets and shop-fronts such as
Rag Shop, Milman's Row, Chelsea [329],
Price's Candle Factory [166],
Lindsey Houses [161],
Bird-Cages, Chelsea [297],
Clothes-Exchange, Houndsditch. No. 2 [359], and Merton Villa, Chelsea [381] all of which date from about 1887.
The plate remained in Whistler's studio and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). She gave permission for a few impressions to be printed by Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956) in 1931. 9 It was then cancelled with a diagonal line at right. Miss Philip gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935.
9: Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340, 348, 352.