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The Fishing Boat |  Art Institute of Chicago (1938.1884) | |
| Number: | 198 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 157 x 234 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right (1) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Second Venice Set', 1886 | |
| No. of States: | 6 | |
| Known impressions: | 39 | |
| Catalogues: | K.208; M.205; W.178 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (39) | ||
The Fishing Boat dates from 1880. Whistler arrived in Venice in September 1879. He was active in Venice from October 1879 and was back in London in November 1880.
The Fishing Boat was published by Messrs Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau with A Set of Twenty-six Etchings (the 'Second Venice Set') in 1886.