UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Recto, above; verso, below:

As with several of the 'Naval Review' copper plates, this bears the oval stamp of 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' (as do Dry Docks, Southampton 302, Bunting 304, The Turret Ship 305, Her Majesty's Fleet: Evening 310 and Tilbury 312).

Whistler etched a lot of plates of the same size, mostly from the same maker, including London scenes (i.e. Old Battersea Bridge, No. 2 275), studies of models (i.e. Cameo, No. 1 (Mother and Child) 459), and a view of Brussels (The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels 346), most of which date from 1887.

The copper plates for the 'Jubilee Set' were in Whistler's studio in Paris in the 1890s, and returned to London when it was sold at the turn of the century. 9 The cancelled 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. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line at left.