Château de Verneuil, Touraine |  Freer Gallery of Art (1891.11) | |
| Number: | 408 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 178 x 128 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 4 | |
| Catalogues: | K.380; M.381 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (4) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The plate has no maker's mark on the verso but was probably made by Hughes & Kimber, London. It is close in size to a large number of plates including Little Market Place, Tours [389], The Clock Tower - Amboise [429] and The Door of the Chapel, Montrésor [422], which were also drawn on Whistler's honeymoon in 1888.
Whistler etched a lot of plates of the same size, mostly from the same maker, including London scenes (i.e. Nut Shop, St James's Place, Houndsditch [356]) and a view of Brussels (The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels [346]), most of which date from 1887. Also in the same size are other views done in subsequent years in Amsterdam and Paris (i.e. Little Drawbridge, Amsterdam [448]).
The copper plate remained in Whistler's estate 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 upper right corner.