Etchings Institutions search term: anderson galleries
Turkeys |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46847) | |
| Number: | 236 | |
| Date: | 1880 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 209 x 135 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left (2) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Second Venice Set', 1886 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 42 | |
| Catalogues: | K.199; M.196; W.165 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (42) | ||
The copper plate has no maker's mark on the verso, and is not the same size as any other plate. It was probably made for Whistler in Venice. 7
7: Getscher 1970 .
It was published by Messrs Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau with the Twenty-six Etchings (the 'Second Venice Set') in 1886.
The plate was cancelled in three stages with diagonal and crossed diagonal lines. The plate, as well as an impression from the cancelled plate (
), was acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago. 8
), was acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago. 8
8: Acc. No. 1933.705.