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The Little Venice |  Art Institute of Chicago (1934.570) | |
| Number: | 238 | |
| Date: | 1880 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 185 x 264 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'First Venice Set', 1880 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 54 | |
| Catalogues: | K.183; M.180; W.149 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (54) | ||
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at lower left.
With scraper marks at the four corners and on the sky and water in the foreground; the outlines of figures are faintly visible at the centre, between the two widely spaced poles.
The scraper marks are less prominent on most impressions (i.e. 
).
).State 2
The scraper marks have been burnished off, and those areas of the plate are clean.
State 2 (cancelled)
Cancelled with two horizontal lines, crossed diagonal lines, and a series of diagonal zigzag lines.