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Rue des Bons Enfants, Tours |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46986) | |
| Number: | 392 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 149 x 80 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 5 | |
| Known impressions: | 10 | |
| Catalogues: | K.372; M.372; W.320 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (10) | ||
The copper plate has no maker's mark. It is close in size to several other unstamped plates of similar date, including Doorway, Stables - Loches
[416], Children, Amboise
[432],
Booth, Market Place, Loches
[425],
Market Women, Loches
[423],
Tour Saint Antoine, Loches
[414] and Windows, Bourges
[398]. It may be that Whistler obtained these copper plates in France.
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 upper left corner.