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Riva, No. 2 |  Art Institute of Chicago (1934.565) | |
| Number: | 230 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 211 x 307 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Second Venice Set', 1886 | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 44 | |
| Catalogues: | K.206; M.203; W.175 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (44) | ||
The copper plate is similar in size to The Beggars
[190], San Giorgio
[214] and
San Biagio
[237]. None of these bear a maker's mark; they were probably made for Whistler in Venice. 10
10: Getscher 1970 .
Riva, No. 2 was published by Messrs Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau with A Set of Twenty-six Etchings (the 'Second Venice Set') in 1886. It was cancelled in several stages, first with diagonal lines, and finally with widely-spaced crossed diagonal lines.
The plate is now in the Art Institute of Chicago. 11
11: Acc. No. 1933.708.