The Piano | ||
| Number: | 144 | |
| Date: | 1875-1877 | |
| Medium: | drypoint and open bite | |
| Size: | 236 x 160 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left (3-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 7 | |
| Known impressions: | 26 | |
| Catalogues: | K.141; M.139; W.117 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (26) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:

The copper plate was cancelled with crossed diagonal lines. It was  probably among plates bought at Whistler's bankruptcy sale by the Fine Art Society, London.   It was published in an album of  Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by The Fine Art Society, London, 1879.
The plate  was  probably among those acquired in exchange for lithographs  from Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958).    10  The plate was  given by Whistler's sister-in-law  Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow in 1935.
10: Note by R. Birnie Philip, inserted in the album, Hunterian Art Gallery.
