Man Fishing |  Whistler Etchings Project (-) | |
| Number: | 404 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 220 x 131 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 1 | |
| Catalogues: | K.-; M.-; T.-; W.- | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (1) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
On the verso the copper plate bears the oval maker's mark of 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' who were Whistler's favourite suppliers. This stamp is on another etching of the same size, Court of the Monastery of St. Augustine, Bourges 403, dating from 1888 and on one that is very close in size, Zaandam 458, dated a year later, 1889. Other etchings of the same size but without the stamp are Mairie, Loches 413 and Notre-Dame, Bourges 402 of 1888, and Church, Amsterdam 445 of 1889.
The copper plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). Miss Philip gave the plate to the University of Glasgow in 1935. The plate was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line from centre bottom to centre right.