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Little Salute

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1889.23)
Number: 210
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: drypoint
Size: 82 x 210 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right (3)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 10
Catalogues: K.220; M.217; W.190
Impressions taken from this plate  (10)
Little Salute dates from 1880. Whistler arrived in Venice in September 1879. He was active in Venice from October 1879 to October 1880 and was back in London in November 1880.
Comparable views of the city include The Little Venice [238] and (by night) Nocturne Shipping [206].