UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Château de Verneuil, Touraine

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1891.11)
Number: 408
Date: 1888
Medium: etching
Size: 178 x 128 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 4
Catalogues: K.380; M.381
Impressions taken from this plate  (4)
Etching: PK380_01 (plate)
Recto, above; verso, below:
Etching: PK380_02 (plate)
The plate has no maker's mark on the verso but was probably made by Hughes & Kimber, London. It is close in size to a large number of plates including Little Market Place, Tours [389], The Clock Tower - Amboise [429] and The Door of the Chapel, Montrésor [422], which were also drawn on Whistler's honeymoon in 1888.
Whistler etched a lot of plates of the same size, mostly from the same maker, including London scenes (i.e. Nut Shop, St James's Place, Houndsditch [356]) and a view of Brussels (The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels [346]), most of which date from 1887. Also in the same size are other views done in subsequent years in Amsterdam and Paris (i.e. Little Drawbridge, Amsterdam [448]).
The copper plate remained in Whistler's estate 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 right corner.