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The Embroidered Curtain

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46999)
Number: 451
Date: 1889
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 239 x 161 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 10
Known impressions: 27
Catalogues: K.410; M.411
Impressions taken from this plate  (27)
Etching: PK410_01 (plate)
Recto, above; verso, below:
Etching: PK410_02 (plate)
The copper plate is close in size to an earlier plate, an Italian subject, Murano - Glass Furnace [205], and to another Dutch plate, The Mill, Amsterdam [457].
It 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 right corner.