Palaces, Brussels |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46985) | |
| Number: | 338 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 222 x 142 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 16 | |
| Catalogues: | K.361; M.355; W.252 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (16) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
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 etchings dating from 1887 (Grand'Place, Brussels [335], The Cock and the Pump [321], The Fleet: Monitors [306], Jubilee Place, Chelsea [276]) including another bearing the Hughes & Kimber stamp (Her Majesty's Fleet: Evening [310]). The original large copper sheets were probably stamped before being cut into smaller sizes. Thus some Hughes & Kimber plates do not have a stamp on the verso. It seems likely all these plates were made by Hughes & Kimber.
The copper plate of Palaces, Brussels 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.