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Railway-Station, Voves

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1924.662)
Number: 387
Date: 1888
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 130 x 220 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right (2)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 6
Catalogues: K.371; M.371
Impressions taken from this plate  (6)
Railway Station, Voves dates from 1888. Whistler and his wife were on honeymoon in the Touraine in September 1888. The butterfly signature is consistent with this date.
Etchings of this date include Notre-Dame, Bourges [402] and Court of the Monastery of St. Augustine, Bourges [403].