Gray's Inn Place |  Freer Gallery of Art (1906.121) | |
| Number: | 281 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 127 x 177 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 6 | |
| Catalogues: | K.297; M.292 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (6) | ||
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' A lot of etching plates of similar size and date came from this maker including
After the Sale, Clothes Exchange, Houndsditch [357],
Exeter Street [274],
The Hoop (Gray's Inn) [287] and Melon Shop, Houndsditch [355].
This 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.