Emanuel Hospital | ||
Number: | 469 | |
Date: | 1892 | |
Medium: | etching (?) | |
Size: | 140 x 220 mm | |
Signed: | unknown | |
Inscribed: | unknown | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 0 | |
Catalogues: | K.-; M.-; T.-; W.- | |
Impressions taken from this plate (0) |
The copper plate has not been located. It was not exactly the same size as any other plate, but close in size to several earlier plates including Palaces, Brussels [338] and Jubilee Place, Chelsea [276], which dated from 1887. However, it definitely was used later, in 1892, when Whistler wrote: 'The Emanuel Hospital is not yet bitten in - but you may tell your friend that he shall have put aside for him one of the early proofs ... However we shall see what I make of the plate.'
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19: Whistler to W. Heinemann, [October 1892], GUW #10789.
According to Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956) the etched plate measured '5 1/2 x 8 11/16"' and was in 'Fine Condition' when he printed it at the request of Whistler's sister-in-law Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), although he also noted that there was 'a lot of Fowelling on this plate' presumably meaning foul biting. 20
![Link to comparative image Comparative image](../../images/etch_t/c_E21_02.jpg)
However, the plate did not come with the rest of Whistler's estate to the University of Glasgow, and is presumed lost or destroyed.
![Link to comparative image Comparative image](../../images/etch_t/c_E21_02.jpg)
However, the plate did not come with the rest of Whistler's estate to the University of Glasgow, and is presumed lost or destroyed.
20: Note dated 18 June 1931, 94-120-145-3 (f. 8); see Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340, 345, 349. Hopkinson's reproductions of Sparks's sketches are reproduced above and below.