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The Palaces

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1942.576)
Number: 223
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching, drypoint and open bite
Size: 252 x 358 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left (4-5); removed (6)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'First Venice Set', 1880
No. of States: 6
Known impressions: 56
Catalogues: K.187; M.184; W.153
Impressions taken from this plate  (56)
The Palaces dates from 1880. Whistler arrived in Venice in September 1879. He was active in Venice from October 1879 to October 1880 and was back in London in November 1880.
It was published in Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings (the 'First Venice Set') in 1880. It was printed between 1880 and at least 1889.
Other palaces etched by Whistler in Venice include The Doorway [193], The Balcony [202] and Nocturne: Palaces [200].