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Marchand de Meubles, Rue du Four

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46651)
Number: 482
Date: 1897/1898
Medium: etching
Size: 204 x 298 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.435; M.431
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)
Etching: PK435_01
The copper plate has the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.'
It is similar in size and stamp to several earlier plates, particularly those for The Doorway 193 and The Two Doorways 221, which date from 1880, but not to later plates.
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). It was cleaned and cancelled with a diagonal line across the lower left corner at her request in 1931 by Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956), who commented 'aparently unfinished - Etched plate - Not printed - plate cleaned & varnished - I cant make much out of the plate I have never seen a proof - '. 4 Miss Philip gave the plate to the University of Glasgow in 1935.

4: Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340, 345, 352.