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Little Venice, 1880

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series Title

Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings

Medium

etching on laid paper

Credit Line

Accession Number

1943.3.8516

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

on plate: (butterfly); on paper, lower right on the verso: (butterfly) / Selected proof; on tab: (butterfly imp.)

(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 61901). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

1931: Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

2003: "Whistler and His Circle in Venice", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003.

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 183.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock.James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné. University of Glasgow on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow, 2012: no. 238, state ii/ii.

Little Venice, 1880