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Court of the Monastery of St Augustine, Bourges

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1917.589)
Number: 403
Date: 1888
Medium: etching
Size: 131 x 220 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 4
Catalogues: K.398; M.397
Impressions taken from this plate  (4)

TECHNIQUE

This is an etching, although there is a possibility that four or five left to right diagonal lines (\\\) at the centre of the open doorway may be drypoint.

PRINTING

Only a few impressions of Court of the Monastery of St Augustine, Bourges were printed, all in dark brown ink. One fine impression, as sharp and vivid as a pen drawing, was annotated '1st proof -' by Whistler; it was printed on ivory laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3980102). Another good impression, also on ivory laid paper, appears to be on a sheet taken from a book (Graphic with a link to impression #K3980103). A third, a beautiful and restrained impression, was printed on thin cream laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K3980105). They are trimmed to the platemark and signed on the tab with Whistler's butterfly and 'imp.' to show that he printed them.