Old Battersea Bridge, No. 2 |  Art Institute of Chicago (1917.494) | |
| Number: | 275 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 128 x 178 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 4 | |
| Catalogues: | K.311; M.305; W.225 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (4) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
Whistler listed it as 'Old Battersea Bridge No. 2', giving the size (which helps to identify it) as '7 x 5' (Whistler often gives width in inches before height). 10 The copper plate bears the maker's stamp of 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' and is the same make and size as several other copper plates of the same date, 1887.
10: List, [August 1887/1888], GUW #13233.
Copper plates of the same size, mostly from the same maker, include other London scenes (i.e. Melon Shop, Houndsditch [355]) and plates showing Queen Victoria's Jubilee (i.e. Troopships [307]), as well as The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels [346] and studies of models (i.e. Cameo, No. 1 (Mother and Child) [459]), most of which date from 1887.
The copper plate of Old Battersea Bridge, No. 2 remained in the artist's estate and was bequeathed to his sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line at left. She gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935.