Windows opposite Hotel, Bourges |  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1943.3.8638) | |
| Number: | 397 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 100 x 67 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.401; M.400 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
TECHNIQUE
This plate was executed in pure etching.
PRINTING
Back in London from the honeymoon, Whistler went to work proofing and printing his plates. Two impressions of Windows opposite hotel, Bourges have been located, out of at least four impressions printed. One was printed in brown ink on cream laid paper (
) and the other in black on ivory laid paper with a partial Strasbourg Lily watermark (). Both are trimmed to the platemark, leaving a tab for the butterfly and 'imp.' to show that Whistler printed it, and both date from 1888 or 1889.
) and the other in black on ivory laid paper with a partial Strasbourg Lily watermark (). Both are trimmed to the platemark, leaving a tab for the butterfly and 'imp.' to show that Whistler printed it, and both date from 1888 or 1889.