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Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(53568)
Number: 206
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: drypoint
Size: 157 x 222 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 5
Known impressions: 8
Catalogues: K.223; M.220; W.194
Impressions taken from this plate  (8)
Etching: PK223_01
The copper plate has no maker's mark and is a different size from any other plate. It was probably made for Whistler in Venice. 8

8: Getscher 1970[more].

It was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with one diagonal line across the lower left corner.