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The Piazzetta |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46802) | |
| Number: | 218 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 257 x 182 mm | |
| Signed: | two butterflies at lower left (1); replaced with new butterfly (2-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'First Venice Set', 1880 | |
| No. of States: | 9 | |
| Known impressions: | 51 | |
| Catalogues: | K.189; M.186; W.155 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (51) | ||
The Piazzetta dates from 1879/1880, when Whistler was in Venice. He arrived in September 1879 and left 14 months later.
It was published in Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings (the 'First Venice Set') in 1880, and printed between 1880 and 1889.