Savoy Scaffolding |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46894) | |
| Number: | 317 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 178 x 82 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 11 | |
| Catalogues: | K.267; M.263; W.217 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (11) | ||
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is close in size to several other plates used in 1886 or 1887:
Dipping the Flag [308],
St James's Place, Houndsditch [255],
The Long Seats, Gray's Inn [283] and Salvation Army, Sandwich [319].
The copper plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower left corner.