Venetian Water Carrier |  Freer Gallery of Art (1908.7) | |
| Number: | 197 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 200 x 126 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 3 | |
| Catalogues: | K.232; M.229 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (3) | ||
TECHNIQUE
Venetian Water-Carrier was drawn with extremely delicate lines of drypoint.
PRINTING
It is very rare: only three impressions have been located. One is in black ink on off-white Asian laid paper (), and two on ivory laid paper, one with a partial watermark of a shield () and the other with a partial 'KF' watermark (). They were almost certainly printed in Venice. None are trimmed, but one impression is signed and inscribed by the artist 'JMcN Whistler / Venice / 80' ().