UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Mairie, Loches

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1889.7)
Number: 413
Date: 1888
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 220 x 130 mm
Signed: butterfly at right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 12
Catalogues: K.382; M.382; W.259
Impressions taken from this plate  (12)
Etching: PK382_01 (plate)
The copper plate has no maker's mark. It is close in size to several other plates done on Whistler's honeymoon including Railway-Station, Voves [387], Court of the Monastery of St. Augustine, Bourges [403], and Notre-Dame, Bourges [402].
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.