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Hôtel Lallement, Bourges | ||
Number: | 396 | |
Date: | 1888 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 165 x 271 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 4 | |
Known impressions: | 7 | |
Catalogues: | K.399; M.398 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (7) |
Hôtel Lallemant, Bourges dates from 1888. While on their honeymoon, James and Beatrice Whistler visited Bourges between 23 and 30 September 1888. In a letter from Tours to his sister-in-law Whistler wrote:
'here we are - "in the Garden of France" - pottering about this old town in straw hats and white shoes! - sitting down on benches or borrowing chairs that we may, at our ease, look at the lovely old doorways - and marvelous carvings -...
Mean while we are thinking of Bourges - have you ever been there? - I fancy it must be amazing -' 1
Mean while we are thinking of Bourges - have you ever been there? - I fancy it must be amazing -' 1
1: Whistler to H.E. Whistler, [22 September 1888], GUW #06713.
In Bourges, Whistler also etched Windows, Bourges
[398] and Windows opposite Hotel, Bourges
[397]. It may have been these etchings that inspired him to consider the etchings as a 'Renaissance Set'.