Black Eagle |  Freer Gallery of Art (1904.168) | |
| Number: | 439 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 65 x 45 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.312; M.307 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' The plate is close in size to an unfinished plate, possibly started at the same time (Sketches including a head and a hat 440).
It was cancelled with irregular crossed diagonal lines. The plate 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.