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Sunflowers, Marché St Germain, Paris

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(49908)
Number: 437
Date: 1888/1893
Medium: etching
Size: 223 x 282 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper centre
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 5
Catalogues: K.422; M.417; W.258
Impressions taken from this plate  (5)
The copper plate has no maker's mark and is not similar in size to any other plate. It remained in Whistler's possession until his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958).

Since the plate was in good condition, she authorised Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956) to print a small number of proofs in 1931. 10

The plate was given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow in 1935. 11

10: Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340, 345, 352.

11: Hunterian Art Gallery GLAHA 50491.