UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Several of the 'Naval Review' copper plates bear the oval stamp of 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' (Dry Docks, Southampton 302, Bunting 304, The Turret Ship 305, Troopships 307, 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), a view of Brussels (The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels 346), most of which date from 1887. Also in the same size are views done on the Whistlers' honeymoon in the Loire valley and in subsequent years in Amsterdam and Paris.

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 copper plate for The Visitors' Boat was in Whistler's London 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.