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The Garden |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46616) | |
| Number: | 194 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 307 x 240 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Second Venice Set', 1886 | |
| No. of States: | 15 | |
| Known impressions: | 43 | |
| Catalogues: | K.210; M.207; W.180 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (43) | ||
The copper plate has no maker's mark. It is close in size to The Dyer
[192], and a little smaller than The Traghetto, No. 2
[233], which also have no mark. They may have been made for Whistler in Venice. 6
6: Getscher 1970 .
It was published by Messrs Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau with A Set of Twenty-six Etchings (the 'Second Venice Set') in 1886. The copper plate was cancelled with crossed diagonal lines in 1887.
The plate is now in the Art Institute of Chicago. 7
7: Acc. No. 1933.709.