Bird Shop - Seven Dials |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46898) | |
| Number: | 384 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 135 x 98 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 8 | |
| Catalogues: | K.281; M.276 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (8) | ||
The copper plate does not have a maker's stamp, but it is close in size to many of Whistler's plates including figure studies (Resting by the Stove [372],
The Fan [375],
Baby Pettigrew [374]) and townscapes (i. e. The Market, Bruges [354], Château de Bridoré [409],
Place Daumont, Tours [390],
Petite Rue au Beurre, Brussels [341]) most of which date from 1887 and 1888.
The copper plate was in Whistler's estate at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). At her request, it was printed by Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956) in 1931. 10 It was then cancelled with a diagonal line across the upper left corner. Miss Philip gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935.
10: Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340, 344, 352.