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Booth, Market Place, Loches | ||
Number: | 425 | |
Date: | 1888 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 80 x 148 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 2 | |
Catalogues: | K.388; M.390 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (2) |
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate has no maker's stamp. However, it is similar in size to several plates dating from 1888 including Courtyard, Rue P. L. Courier, Tours
[391],
Doorway, Stables - Loches
[416],
Rue des Bons Enfants, Tours
[392],
Children, Amboise
[432],
Market Women, Loches
[423],
Tour Saint Antoine, Loches
[414], and Windows, Bourges
[398].
It was in Whistler's studio at his death and was given to the University of Glasgow by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower left corner.