Court of the Monastery of St Augustine, Bourges |  Art Institute of Chicago (1917.589) | |
| Number: | 403 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 131 x 220 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 4 | |
| Catalogues: | K.398; M.397 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (4) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' Several other etchings of this period are similar in size including
Railway-Station, Voves 387,
Mairie, Loches 413,
Church, Amsterdam 445 and
Rue de la Rochefoucault 434.
It 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 left corner.