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The Long Seats, Gray's Inn

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46912)
Number: 283
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 82 x 179 mm
Signed: butterfly at right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 5
Catalogues: K.299; M.293
Impressions taken from this plate  (5)
Etching: PK299_01 (plate)
The copper plate bears a partial oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is close in size to several earlier plates - all dating from 1887 - including Savoy Scaffolding [317], Tilbury [312], Dipping the Flag [308] and Salvation Army, Sandwich [319].
It was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to his sister-in-law Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who, in 1931, asked Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956) to print a few proofs. 7 It was then cancelled with a diagonal line at right. Miss Birnie Philip gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935.

7: Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340, 343, 349.