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Greenhithe

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1898.364)
Number: 173
Date: 1877
Medium: drypoint
Size: 151 x 227 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 25
Catalogues: K.165; M.161; W.135
Impressions taken from this plate  (25)
Greenhithe dates from 1877. The butterfly signature is consistent with this date. The earliest sales occurred in October 1877. 1

It was referred to by H. Stewart Cundell in April 1878 as among 'recent plates'. 2 Other etchings of this date include Free Trade Wharf 171, London Bridge 172 and Battersea Morn 174.

1: i.e. Whistler to Hogarth, 22-27 October [1877], GUW #12737.

2: 'English Etching', The Standard, London, 25 April 1878, p. 2 (GUL PC1/94).