James McNeill WHISTLER
Ponte del Piovan
(1880); printed 1886
plate from A set of twenty-six etchings (or The second Venice set)

Medium
etching and drypoint printed in dark brown ink

Measurements
22.7 × 15.2 cm (image and sheet, trimmed to platemark) 23.3 × 15.2 cm (sheet, trimmed to tab)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip, 1958

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
London, England

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Glasgow vi/vi (or vii prior to cancellation); Kennedy 209 v/vi; Mansfield 206; Wedmore 179

Edition
6th of 6 states, or undescribed 7th state

Printing/Publishing
published by Messrs Dowdeswell and Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau, London

Inscription
printed in ink (in image, on bridge) c.r.: (butterfly) (monogram)
inscribed in pencil l.c.l. (on tab): (butterfly) (monogram) imp.

Accession Number
3768-4

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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