Hôtel Lallement, Bourges |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46640) | |
| Number: | 396 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 165 x 271 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 7 | |
| Catalogues: | K.399; M.398 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (7) | ||
Hôtel Lallemant, Bourges dates from 1888. While on their honeymoon, James and Beatrice Whistler visited Bourges between 23 and 30 September 1888. In a letter from Tours to his sister-in-law Whistler wrote:
'here we are - "in the Garden of France" - pottering about this old town in straw hats and white shoes! - sitting down on benches or borrowing chairs that we may, at our ease, look at the lovely old doorways - and marvelous carvings -...
Mean while we are thinking of Bourges - have you ever been there? - I fancy it must be amazing -' 1
Mean while we are thinking of Bourges - have you ever been there? - I fancy it must be amazing -' 1
1: Whistler to H.E. Whistler, [22 September 1888], GUW #06713.
In Bourges, Whistler also etched Windows, Bourges [398] and Windows opposite Hotel, Bourges [397]. It may have been these etchings that inspired him to consider the etchings as a 'Renaissance Set'.