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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 copper plate has no maker's mark and is a different size from any other copper plate. It may have been made for Whistler in Venice. 10
10: Getscher 1970 .
It was published by Messrs Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau with A Set of Twenty-six Etchings (the 'Second Venice Set') in 1886. The plate was cancelled with curved and crossed diagonal lines.
The plate is now in the Art Institute of Chicago. 11
11: Acc. No. 1933.704.