Gold House, Brussels |  Art Institute of Chicago (1934.640) | |
| Number: | 336 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 179 x 67 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 4 | |
| Catalogues: | K.360; M.359 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (4) | ||
The copper plate for Gold House, Brussels has no maker's mark. It is the same as or close in size to three other Belgian plates, Flower Market, Brussels 339, House of the Swan, Brussels 337, and
The Canal, Ostend 352 and to two other 1887 plates,
The Steps, Gray's Inn 282 and
Dry Docks, Southampton 302, which all share the narrow elongated format. In Brussels the format emphasizes tall, narrow buildings, and in several other plates, a panoramic vista.
It 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, reaching from near the lower left corner to above centre at right.