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The Fish Shop, Venice

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46880)
Number: 226
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 131 x 223 mm
Signed: butterfly at left and upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 9
Known impressions: 18
Catalogues: K.218; M.215; W.188
Impressions taken from this plate  (18)
The Fish Shop, Venice dates from 1880. Whistler arrived in Venice in September 1879. He was active in Venice from October 1879 to October 1880 and was back in London in November 1880.
Related subjects include Fruit Stall [225], The Fishing Boat [198], and, a few years later, Fish-Shop, Chelsea [267], Fishing Quay, Ostend [351] and Fish Women, Ostend [349].