Murano - Glass Furnace |  Freer Gallery of Art (1906.239) | |
| Number: | 205 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 161 x 238 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 7 | |
| Catalogues: | K.217; M.214; W.187 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (7) | ||
Recto, above; verso, below:
The copper plate has no maker's mark. It is different in size from any other plate of the period, though close to a later plate, The Embroidered Curtain [451]. It is distinguished by a pebbled surface on the verso, and would have been made for Whistler in Venice. 11
11: Getscher 1970.
It was in Whistler's studio at his death and was bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), who gave it to the University of Glasgow in 1935. The plate was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line across the lower left corner.