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Impression: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la photographie
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la photographie
(Rés EC 123 Folio 3)
Number: 228
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: drypoint
Size: 167 x 236 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 2
Catalogues: K.225; M.222; W.198
Impressions taken from this plate  (2)
Etching: PK225_01 (plate)
The copper plate has no maker's stamp and is different in size from any other plate. It was probably made in Italy by a local craftsman. 8

The plate was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). It was printed at her request by Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956) in 1931, before being cancelled with one diagonal line across the lower left corner. 9 Miss Philip gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935.

8: Getscher 1970

9: Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340-341, 349 (mis-identified as Gondola under a Bridge [227]).