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Beatrice Whistler painting from a window, Bourges |  Whistler Etchings Project (-) | |
| Number: | 399 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 135 x 98 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 1 | |
| Catalogues: | K.-; M.-; T.-; W.- | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (1) | ||
The copper plate is close in size to a number of etchings including Three studies of women's heads
[400], A French Street
[405], Bird Shop - Seven Dials
[384], The Fan
[375], The Hangman's House, Tours
[393], Place Daumont, Tours
[390], Château de Bridoré
[409], Château Touraine
[410] and Café Luxembourg
[436].
The copper plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). Miss Philip gave the plate to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line from below centre left to near the bottom right.