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The Piazzetta

1879/1880
Etching and drypoint on Asian paper
K.189 (5/5)
The Whistler Estate, presented by Rosalind Birnie Philip, 1935
Hunterian Art Gallery, GLAHA 46608

San Marco, under scaffolding, is partly hidden by the column of Saint Theodore. Whistler delivered nine impressions of this etching to the Fine Art Society on 16 February, sixteen on 6 April, and seven on 25 August 1881; one on 15 February 1884; three on 13 January and nine on 25 June 1887; and finally nineteen on 2 May 1889. 1.

Notes

1. Lists, 7 January 1882, 25 June 1887, and 2 May 1889, GUW 01137, 01991, 01221.