House-roofs |  Yale University Art Gallery (1960.46.60) | |
| Number: | 132 | |
| Date: | 1874/1875 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 75 x 125 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 1 | |
| Catalogues: | K.-; M.-; T.-; W.- | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (1) | ||
The cancelled plate is very close in size to two copper plates of 1874,
Tatting 130 and
The Muff 131.
The plate of House-roofs was probably among those sold at Whistler's bankruptcy, and was probably bought and intended for publication in a set of Cancelled Etchings by the Fine Art Society in 1879. Most of the published sets contain 57 etchings, except for the set now in the Yale University Art Gallery, which contains additional prints : House-roofs, Nude Reclining 126, Seated woman facing left 134, Woman seated in an armchair facing right 090, Nude woman reclining 092, A standing figure, possibly on stage 160, and Lady standing 149.
Sixty-eight 'Published and unpublished' copper plates 'more or less scratched' from the collection of Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840- d.1892) were auctioned at Sotheby's, 13 December 1889 (lot 786) and bought by Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851) for £11.12.0. Most were returned after Whistler's death to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). However, this plate has not been located.