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Billingsgate

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46738)
Number: 51
Date: 1859
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 152 x 223 mm
Signed: 'Whistler.' to right of centre
Inscribed: '1859.' at lower right
Set/Publication: 'The Portfolio', London, 1878
No. of States: 9
Known impressions: 125
Catalogues: K.47; M.46; T.34; W.45
Impressions taken from this plate  (125)
The copper plate is close in size to that for Longshore men 052. The copper plate was sold to Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1834-1894). The plate was steel-faced during the period it was printed for an edition of 100 and inclusion in three publications, in 1878, 1880 and 1882. The steel-facing has since been removed. It is cancelled with diagonal lines from corner to corner and a horizontal and vertical line, all meeting in the centre.

The plate was sold by the Albert Rouillier Art Galleries to the Toledo Museum of Art. 10

10: Acc. No. 1927.57.