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The Clock Tower - Amboise

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46992)
Number: 429
Date: 1888
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 178 x 127 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 10
Catalogues: K.394; M.394
Impressions taken from this plate  (10)
Etching: PK394_01
Recto, above; verso, below:
Etching: PK394_02
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' Whistler used this size and make of etchings a lot. Examples of similar date include Little Market Place, Tours 389, The Door of the Chapel, Montrésor 422 and Château de Verneuil, Touraine 408.
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). It was printed at her request in 1931 by Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956), who wrote that the plate was 'in perfect condition'. 11 It was then cancelled with a diagonal line across the lower right corner. She gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935.

11: Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340-341, 349.