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The Smithy

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1938.1928)
Number: 239
Date: 1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 177 x 229 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 6
Known impressions: 20
Catalogues: K.240; M.237; W.197
Impressions taken from this plate  (20)
Etching: PK240_01
The copper plate has no maker's mark and is not close in size to any other plate.
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 a diagonal line across the lower left corner.