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Fleur-de-lys Passage

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46904)
Number: 360
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 185 x 82 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 11
Catalogues: K.289; M.286; W.233
Impressions taken from this plate  (11)
Etching: PK289_01 (plate)
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is of similar size and make to The Orator, Buffalo Bill [293] and The Beach, Ostend [353], both of which date from 1887.
The 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 at lower right.