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Wimpole Street

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46895)
Number: 279
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 100 x 67 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.286; M.278
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)
Etching: PK286_01 (plate)
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is the same or close in size to several Hughes & Kimber plates etched by Whistler including The Little Hat [366], The Baby, Gray's Inn [288], Children's Fruit Barrow [347] and St James's Park [250], all dated 1887, and Windows opposite Hotel, Bourges [397], of 1888.
The plate 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 right corner.