Sketches including a head and a hat |  Whistler Etchings Project (-) | |
| Number: | 440 | |
| Date: | 1888/1889 | |
| Medium: | unbitten; drawn through the ground with an etching needle | |
| Size: | 64 x 45 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | ||
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 1 | |
| Catalogues: | K.-; M.-; T.-; W.- | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (1) | ||
The copper plate is very close in size to Black Eagle [439], and may date from the same time. An etching needle was used to draw through the ground on the plate but it was not completed, bitten or cancelled.
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death in 1903, and was given by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) to the University of Glasgow in 1935.