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The Clock Tower - Amboise

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46992)
Number: 429
Date: 1888
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 178 x 127 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 10
Catalogues: K.394; M.394
Impressions taken from this plate  (10)
Etching: PK394_01 (plate)
Recto, above; verso, below:
Etching: PK394_02 (plate)
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' Whistler used this size and make of etchings a lot. Examples of similar date include Little Market Place, Tours [389], The Door of the Chapel, Montrésor [422] and Château de Verneuil, Touraine [408].
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). It was printed at her request in 1931 by Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956), who wrote that the plate was 'in perfect condition'. 11 It was then cancelled with a diagonal line across the lower right corner. She gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935.

11: Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340-341, 349.