Nocturne |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46803) | |
| Number: | 222 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 202 x 294 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'First Venice Set', 1880 | |
| No. of States: | 9 | |
| Known impressions: | 59 | |
| Catalogues: | K.184; M.181; W.150 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (59) | ||
Whistler arrived in Venice in September 1879 and left fourteen months later. This etching was started in 1879. One impression is signed and dated '1st state - 1st proof - Venice 1879' ().
Nocturne was published by the Fine Art Society in Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings (the 'First Venice Set') in 1880, and printed at intervals until 1889.
Whistler's etchings of night in Venice include Nocturne: Palaces 200, Nocturne: Furnace 208, Nocturne Shipping 206 and Nocturne: Salute 203.