San Giorgio |  Freer Gallery of Art (1887.8) | |
| Number: | 214 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 211 x 308 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left (5) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Second Venice Set', 1886 | |
| No. of States: | 5 | |
| Known impressions: | 38 | |
| Catalogues: | K.201; M.198; W.167 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (38) | ||
The copper plate does not have a maker's stamp. It is close in size to
Riva, No. 2 [230],
The Beggars [190], and San Biagio [237], none of which have maker's stamps. They may have been made for Whistler in Venice. 7
7: Getscher 1970.
It was published by Messrs Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau with A Set of Twenty-six Etchings (the 'Second Venice Set') in 1886. It was then cancelled with crossed diagonal lines. The plate is now in the Art Institute of Chicago. 8
8: Acc. No. 1933.689.