Château de Verneuil, Touraine |  Freer Gallery of Art (1891.11) | |
| Number: | 408 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 178 x 128 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 4 | |
| Catalogues: | K.380; M.381 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (4) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The plate has no maker's mark on the verso but was probably made by Hughes & Kimber, London. It is close in size to a large number of plates including Little Market Place, Tours 389, The Clock Tower - Amboise 429 and The Door of the Chapel, Montrésor 422, which were also drawn on Whistler's honeymoon in 1888.
Whistler etched a lot of plates of the same size, mostly from the same maker, including London scenes (i.e. Nut Shop, St James's Place, Houndsditch 356) and a view of Brussels (The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels 346), most of which date from 1887. Also in the same size are other views done in subsequent years in Amsterdam and Paris (i.e. Little Drawbridge, Amsterdam 448).
The copper plate remained in Whistler's estate 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 upper right corner.