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The Japanese Dress

Impression: Library of Congress
Library of Congress
(FP-XIX-W576, no. 337)
Number: 371
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 100 x 68 mm
Signed: butterfly at right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.337; M.335
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)
Etching: PK337_01
The copper plate has the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'
It is the same size as Cottage Door 252, St James's Park 250 and Gypsy Baby 373. It is also close in size to ten more plates including The Menpes Children 300, The Baby, Gray's Inn 288, The Fur Tippet: Miss Lenoir 365, The Little Hat 366, Theatre, Loches 418 and Marchande de Vin, Ajaccio 485. These vary widely in date, from 1887 to 1901.
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. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower right corner.