The Beach, Ostend |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46978) | |
| Number: | 353 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 82 x 185 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 4 | |
| Catalogues: | K.354; M.347 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (4) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below.
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' (x 2). It is a narrow envelope format, suited to the panoramic subject. It is the same size as Fleur-de-lis Passage [360] and The Orator, Buffalo Bill [293], and close to Petite Rue des Bouchers [342], all dating from 1887.
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who asked Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956) to print a few proofs in 1931. 8 It was then cancelled with a slanting line at right. She gave the plate to the University of Glasgow in 1935.
8: Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340, 343, 349.