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York Street, Westminster

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1917.477)
Number: 382
Date: 1888
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 128 x 218 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 8
Catalogues: K.270; M.266; W.220
Impressions taken from this plate  (8)
Etching: PK270_01 (plate)
The copper plate has no maker's mark. It was close in size to a number of etchings including several figure subjects (The Fur Cloak - Mrs Herbert [367], Nora Quinn [364] and The Busby [368]) and continental views (Passages de l'Opéra [386], Archway, Brussels [344] and Balustrade, Luxembourg Gardens [465]).
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was given by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the upper left corner.