Traghetto |  Art Institute of Chicago (1927.5960) | |
| Number: | 231 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 240 x 311 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left (1-2); replaced with new butterfly (3-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 7 | |
| Catalogues: | K.190; M.187 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (7) | ||
Traghetto dates from 1880. Otto Henry Bacher (1856-1909) remembered seeing 'the first proof of "The Traghetto," the most remarkable proof of all', early in 1880, 'During my first visit to Whistler, when he was living near the Frari'. 1 Whistler then made a second version of the subject, The Traghetto [233].
1: Bacher 1908, p. 165.
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.