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The Door of the Chapel, Montrésor

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1934.557)
Number: 422
Date: 1888
Medium: etching
Size: 178 x 128 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 4
Catalogues: K.395; M.392
Impressions taken from this plate  (4)
Etching: PK395_01
Recto, above; verso, below:
Etching: PK395_02
The copper plate bears 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. Melon Shop, Houndsditch 355), Queen Victoria's Jubilee subjects (i.e. Troopships 307), studies of models (i.e. Cameo, No. 1 (Mother and Child) 459), 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 on the Whistler's honeymoon in the Loire valley (Little Market Place, Tours 389, Château de Verneuil, Touraine 408) and in subsequent years in Amsterdam and Paris (i.e. Little Drawbridge, Amsterdam 448).
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 right corner.