San Giorgio | ||
Number: | 214 | |
Date: | 1879/1880 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 211 x 308 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at lower left (5) | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | 'Second Venice Set', 1886 | |
No. of States: | 5 | |
Known impressions: | 38 | |
Catalogues: | K.201; M.198; W.167 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (38) |
The copper plate does not have a maker's stamp. It is close in size to
Riva, No. 2 230,
The Beggars 190, and San Biagio 237, none of which have maker's stamps. They may have been made for Whistler in Venice. 7
7: Getscher 1970[more].
It was published by Messrs Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau with A Set of Twenty-six Etchings (the 'Second Venice Set') in 1886. It was then cancelled with crossed diagonal lines. The plate is now in the Art Institute of Chicago. 8
8: Acc. No. 1933.689.