The Fish Shop, Venice |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46880) | |
| Number: | 226 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 131 x 223 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left and upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 9 | |
| Known impressions: | 18 | |
| Catalogues: | K.218; M.215; W.188 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (18) | ||
The copper plate has no maker's stamp, and is not the same size as any other plate used in Venice. The verso is distinguished by small flakes of copper, and the plate was probably made for Whistler in Venice. 8
8: Getscher 1970.
The plate 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. It was cancelled posthumously with a diagonal line at left.