Chelsea |  Freer Gallery of Art (1889.22) | |
| Number: | 181 | |
| Date: | 1878/1879 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 133 x 207 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | Printseller's Association, 1879. | |
| No. of States: | 5 | |
| Known impressions: | 66 | |
| Catalogues: | K.182; M.179; W.148 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (66) | ||
Chelsea dates from late 1878 or very early 1879. It appears to be winter, with the tree branches bare. Impressions were stamped by the Printsellers' Association and published in 1879. 1 The butterfly signature is consistent with this date.
1: The Athenaeum, 14 June 1879, p. 769.
Other London scenes of this date include
The 'Adam and Eve', Old Chelsea 182, Hurlingham 184,
Old Putney Bridge 185,
Little Putney Bridge 186,
The Little Putney 187, and
Old Battersea Bridge 188.