James McNeill WHISTLER
San Biagio
(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
20.8 × 30.0 cm (image and plate) 20.9 × 30.3 cm (sheet) 21.7 × 30.3 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; Venice, Italy

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Glasgow 237 xii/xvii; Kennedy 197 viii/ix; Mansfield 194; Wedmore 163

Edition
12th of 17 states

Printing/Publishing
printed by the artist; published by Messrs Dowdeswell and Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau, London

Inscription
printed in dark brown ink (in image) c.l.: (butterfly) (monogram)
inscribed in pencil (on tab) l.c.l.: (butterfly) (monogram) imp

Accession Number
3767-4

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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