UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

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Rue de la Rochefoucault

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46645)
Number: 434
Date: 1888
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 132 x 221 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left of centre
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 8
Catalogues: K.419; M.365
Impressions taken from this plate  (8)
Etching: PK419_01 (plate)
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'
It is close in size to Man Fishing [404], Mairie, Loches [413], Church, Amsterdam [445], Jews' Quarter, Amsterdam [449], Zaandam [458], and Café Corazza, Paris [484].
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. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower left corner.