A Man Reading |  Freer Gallery of Art (1893.84) | |
| Number: | 107 | |
| Date: | 1873/1877 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 280 x 190 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 18 | |
| Catalogues: | K.137; M.136 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (18) | ||
The copper plate has no maker's mark and is the same size and date as Swinburne 108, and close in size to Wapping - The Pool 180, which dates from the later 1870s.
The plate was cancelled with crossed diagonal lines. The cancelled copper plate was probably among plates bought at Whistler's bankruptcy sale by the Fine Art Society, London. It was published in the set of Cancelled Plates by the Fine Art Society in 1879.
The copper plate was probably among those acquired in exchange for lithographs from Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851), by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). 3 The plate was given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow in 1935.
3: Note by R. Birnie Philip, inserted in the album, Hunterian Art Gallery.