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Market Women, Loches |  Freer Gallery of Art (1913.49) | |
| Number: | 423 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 149 x 80 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.389 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
It is similar in size to several other copper plates used during Whistler's honeymoon,
Courtyard, Rue P. L. Courier, Tours
[391], Rue des Bons Enfants, Tours
[392], Doorway, Stables - Loches
[416], Booth, Market Place, Loches
[425],
Children, Amboise
[432],
Tour Saint Antoine, Loches
[414] and Windows, Bourges
[398].
The copper plate was in Whistler's studio at his death. It was given to the University of Glasgow by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower left corner.