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The Piazzetta

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46802)
Number: 218
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 257 x 182 mm
Signed: two butterflies at lower left (1); replaced with new butterfly (2-final)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'First Venice Set', 1880
No. of States: 9
Known impressions: 51
Catalogues: K.189; M.186; W.155
Impressions taken from this plate  (51)
Etching: PK189_01 (plate)
This copper plate has no maker's mark. 7 It is slightly larger than Upright Venice [232] but otherwise not similar in size to any other plate.

It was published in Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings (the 'First Venice Set') by the Fine Art Society, London, in 1880. It was cancelled in 1889 with crossed lines and a large butterfly.
The plate was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1902 and is now in the Freer Gallery of Art. 8

8: Acc. No. 1902.132.