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The Rialto |  Freer Gallery of Art (1887.22) | |
| Number: | 199 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 298 x 203 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left (3) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Second Venice Set', 1886 | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 36 | |
| Catalogues: | K.211; M.208; W.181 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (36) | ||
The copper plate bears the maker's oval stamp: 'HUGHES & KIMBER (LIMITED) / MANUFACTURERS / LONDON E.C.' It is similar in size to several other plates used in Venice, by the same maker,
The Bridge, Santa Marta
[201],
Nocturne: Palaces
[200],
The Riva
[229] and
The Balcony
[202]. Thus the plate was brought from London and intended for the set of Venetian etchings commissioned by the Fine Art Society.
However, it was published by Messrs Dowdeswell and Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840- d.1892) with A Set of Twenty-six Etchings (the 'Second Venice Set') in 1886. It was then cancelled with crossed curving zigzag lines.
The plate is now in the Art Institute of Chicago. 6
6: Acc. No. 1933.713.