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Wimpole Street

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46895)
Number: 279
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 100 x 67 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.286; M.278
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)
Wimpole Street dates from 1887 or 1888. It was first listed by Whistler in late 1887 or 1888. 1 It was first recorded as sold on 3 May 1888. 2

The type and size of the copper plate is very close to several plates that definitely date from 1887, including The Baby, Gray's Inn [288] and Butcher's Shop, Sandwich, Kent [320], and one from 1888, Windows opposite Hotel, Bourges [397].

1: [August 1887/1888], GUW #13233.

2: GUW #13051.