UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' on the verso. It was cancelled with crossed diagonal lines.

It is similar in size to F. R. Leyland [121], Nude Posing [125], Speke Hall [140] and Sir Garnet Wolseley [177], which range in date from about 1870 to 1877.

It was probably among cancelled plates bought at Whistler's bankruptcy sale by the Fine Art Society, London. It was published in the set of Cancelled Plates by the Fine Art Society in 1879.

The copper plate was probably among those acquired from Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851), by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who explained: 'A number of these plates were returned to me after the artist's death by Robert Dunthorne of Vigo Street, London in exchange for a number of lithographic proofs'. 3 The plate was later given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow in 1935.