Little Chelsea (Memorial) | ||
Number: | 315 | |
Date: | 1887 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 52 x 83 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 2 | |
Known impressions: | 3 | |
Catalogues: | K.331; M.323; W.246 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (3) |

The copper plate was stamped twice with the oval maker's stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'
It is a very small plate, of the size that could easily be slipped in a pocket. Whistler used a similar size for another Chelsea subject, Little Maunder's 273, and other small sketches including Dieppe 251, The Dray Horse 292, and The Little Cloak 370.
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and 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.