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The Steps, Amsterdam

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1906.112)
Number: 452
Date: 1889
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 242 x 166 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 5
Known impressions: 14
Catalogues: K.403; M.402; W.260
Impressions taken from this plate  (14)
Etching: PK403_01
Recto, above; verso, below:
Etching: PK403_02
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is the same size as two recent London plates by the same maker, The Barber's Shop, Chelsea 263 and Justice Walk, Chelsea 441, and very close in size to another Dutch plate, Bridge, Amsterdam 447.
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.