Railway-Station, Voves | ||
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) |
KEYWORD
horse, cart, landscape, people, railway, town, windmill.
TITLE
Variations on the title and its spelling are as follows:
'Voves. Touraine / / Railway' (1888, Whistler). 1
'Station. Voves' (1888, Whistler). 2
'Railway Station, Voves (French Plates)' (1887/1888, Whistler). 3
'Station Voves' (1889, Whistler). 4
'Railway Station, Vovés' [sic] (1900, Caxton Club). 5
'Railway-Station, Voves' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 6
'Railway Station, Voves' is the most clear and full of Whistler's titles, and is therefore the preferred title. The place is called Voves (not Vovés).
'Voves. Touraine / / Railway' (1888, Whistler). 1
'Station. Voves' (1888, Whistler). 2
'Railway Station, Voves (French Plates)' (1887/1888, Whistler). 3
'Station Voves' (1889, Whistler). 4
'Railway Station, Vovés' [sic] (1900, Caxton Club). 5
'Railway-Station, Voves' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 6
'Railway Station, Voves' is the most clear and full of Whistler's titles, and is therefore the preferred title. The place is called Voves (not Vovés).
1: Written on K3710203.
2: Written on .
3: List, [1887/1888], GUW #13233.
4: List, 18 July 1889, GUW #13235.
5: Chicago 1900 (cat. no. E310).
6: Mansfield 1909[more] (cat. no. 371).
DESCRIPTION
At the left of a railway-track stands a horse pulling a cart in which there are two people. Behind them stands a woman with a wheelbarrow. Behind them, on the other side of the railway is a railway signal. In the distance, there is a windmill at left, and a village, with trees and scattered houses to right, under a cloudy sky.
SITE
Voves is a commune in the Eure-et-Loire department in north-central France. It is on the edge of the
Beauce plain and was in Whistler's day where the Chartres-Orleans
railway line crossed the Paris-Tours railway line.