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The Bridge, Santa Marta

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1887.12)
Number: 201
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 298 x 202 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Second Venice Set', 1886
No. of States: 9
Known impressions: 47
Catalogues: K.204; M.201; W.171
Impressions taken from this plate  (47)
The Bridge, Santa Marta 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.
It was published by Messrs Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau with A Set of Twenty-six Etchings (the 'Second Venice Set') in 1886.