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The Venetian Mast |  Art Institute of Chicago (1934.536) | |
| Number: | 219 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 344 x 166 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left (6-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'First Venice Set', 1880 | |
| No. of States: | 12 | |
| Known impressions: | 57 | |
| Catalogues: | K.195; M.192; W.160 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (57) | ||
The copper plate has no maker's mark. It is a tall, narrow plate, distinguished by small flakes of copper on the verso, and made specially for Whistler in Venice. 8
It was published in Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings (the 'First Venice Set') by the Fine Art Society, London, in 1880. It was printed between 1880 and 1889, when it was first cancelled lightly with crossed lines and then thoroughly with a large butterfly and crossed diagonal lines.
It was published in Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings (the 'First Venice Set') by the Fine Art Society, London, in 1880. It was printed between 1880 and 1889, when it was first cancelled lightly with crossed lines and then thoroughly with a large butterfly and crossed diagonal lines.
8: Getscher 1970 .
The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935.