UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Shipping, Venice

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1908.8)
Number: 217
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching
Size: 301 x 206 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.229; M.226
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)
Shipping, Venice dates from 1880. Whistler was active in Venice from late September 1879 to October 1880. A proof of this etching was acquired by Otto Henry Bacher (1856-1909) when he worked in Venice in the summer and autumn of 1880, and the etching probably dates from that time.
Similar subjects include Upright Venice [232].