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Gondola under a Bridge |  Freer Gallery of Art (1905.202) | |
| Number: | 227 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 295 x 201 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 3 | |
| Catalogues: | K.227; M.224 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (3) | ||
TECHNIQUE
Gondola under a Bridge was begun in pure etching, and only a few drypoint lines were added, on and just below the large gondola and among the arches at left.
PRINTING
Only three impressions of Gondola under a bridge have been located. One - probably printed in Venice - is in black ink on a fine, smoothly textured Asian tissue (
), and another, also in black ink, is on cream Asian laid paper ().
), and another, also in black ink, is on cream Asian laid paper ().