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The Little Lagoon

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46798)
Number: 216
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 226 x 152 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'First Venice Set', 1880
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 58
Catalogues: K.186; M.183; W.152
Impressions taken from this plate  (58)
The Little Lagoon 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. The etching was printed between 1880 and 1889.
Other views across the lagoon include The Little Venice [238], Long Lagoon [215] and Islands: Evening [204].