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The Hangman's House, Tours |  Freer Gallery of Art (1906.124) | |
| Number: | 393 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 135 x 99 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 6 | |
| Catalogues: | K.376; M.376 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (6) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate has no maker's mark but is the same size as other plates of the period such as
Three studies of women's heads
[400], Beatrice Whistler painting from a window, Bourges
[399], Place Daumont, Tours
[390], Château Touraine
[410], A French Street
[405], Château de Bridoré
[409]
and Gateway, Chartreuse, near Loches
[421].
The copper 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 left corner.