Petite Rue au Beurre, Brussels |  Art Institute of Chicago (1917.582) | |
| Number: | 341 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 135 x 99 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 3 | |
| Catalogues: | K.364; M.363 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (3) | ||
The copper plate is the same or close in size to a number of plates used by Whistler, including Resting by the Stove [372], which dates from about 1887, and also many plates etched in the following year, including The Hangman's House, Tours [393],
Place Daumont, Tours [390],
The Market, Bruges [354], and Café Luxembourg [436].
The copper plate of Petite Rue au Beurre, 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 bottom left corner.