The Clock Tower - Amboise |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46992) | |
| Number: | 429 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 178 x 127 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 10 | |
| Catalogues: | K.394; M.394 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (10) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' Whistler used this size and make of etchings a lot. Examples of similar date include
Little Market Place, Tours [389],
The Door of the Chapel, Montrésor [422] and Château de Verneuil, Touraine [408].
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). It was printed at her request in 1931 by Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956), who wrote that the plate was 'in perfect condition'. 11 It was then cancelled with a diagonal line across the lower right corner. She gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935.
11: Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340-341, 349.