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A French Street

Impression: Whistler Etchings Project
Whistler Etchings Project
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Number: 405
Date: 1888
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 135 x 98 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 1
Catalogues: K.-; M.-; T.-; W.-
Impressions taken from this plate  (1)
Etching: PE12_01 (plate)
The copper plate bears the maker's stamp, 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is the same or very close in size to a number of etchings with the same stamp and similar subjects that date from 1888 (Courtyard, Rue P. L. Courier, Tours [391], The Hangman's House, Tours [393], Château de Bridoré [409], Château Touraine [410], and Gateway, Chartreuse, near Loches [421]).
The copper plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). Miss Philip gave the plate to the University of Glasgow in 1935. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line from centre left to lower right. It is contained in an envelope labelled 'Unpublished Plate, possibly French'.