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Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46849)
Number: 200
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 298 x 202 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left (12)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Second Venice Set', 1886
No. of States: 12
Known impressions: 54
Catalogues: K.202; M.199; W.168
Impressions taken from this plate  (54)
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It must have been taken from London to Venice specifically for the Fine Art Society set of etchings, but then used for the 'Second Venice Set' instead. It was similar in size to several other Venetian etchings including The Riva [229], The Bridge, Santa Marta [201], The Balcony [202] and The Rialto [199].
It was published by Messrs Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau with A Set of Twenty-six Etchings (the 'Second Venice Set') in 1886. It was cancelled with rough, widely spaced crossed diagonal lines.

The plate is now in the Art Institute of Chicago. 9

9: Acc. No. 1933.714