Little Market Place, Tours |  Art Institute of Chicago (1934.586) | |
| Number: | 389 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 128 x 178 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 5 | |
| Catalogues: | K.375; M.375 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (5) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate has the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' Whistler etched a lot of plates of the same size, mostly from the same maker, including London scenes (i.e. Cutler Street, Houndsditch [361]), Queen Victoria's Jubilee subjects (i.e. Troopships [307]), and a view of Brussels (The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels [346]), most of which date from 1887. Also in the same size are views done, like
Little Market Place, Tours, on the Whistler's honeymoon in the Loire valley (i.e. Château de Verneuil, Touraine [408], The Door of the Chapel, Montrésor [422]) and in subsequent years in Amsterdam and Paris (i.e. Little Drawbridge, Amsterdam [448],
Greengrocer's Shop, Paris [471]).
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death 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 lower left corner.