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Long Lagoon

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1938.1897)
Number: 215
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 154 x 228 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left (2)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Second Venice Set', 1886
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 40
Catalogues: K.203; M.200; W.169
Impressions taken from this plate  (40)
The copper plate has the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is similar in size to several other plates by the same maker including Bead Stringers [235], Quiet Canal [224] and Ponte Piovan [220].
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 crossed zig-zag lines.

The plate is now in the Art Institute of Chicago. 6

6: Acc. No. 1933.699.