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Old Women

Impression: Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
(1996.48.11685)
Number: 234
Date: 1880
Medium: drypoint
Size: 128 x 204 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left (2-final)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 5
Catalogues: K.224; M.221; W.195
Impressions taken from this plate  (5)
Old Women dates from 1880. It was etched in Venice, where Whistler arrived in September 1879. He was active in Venice from October 1879 to October 1880 and was in the area depicted in this etching in the summer and autumn of 1880. He was back in London in November 1880.
Similar subjects include The Venetian Mast 219 and Bead Stringers 235.