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The Piazzetta

1880/1889
Etching and drypoint on laid paper (watermark, HARRIS & McMU[RDO])
K.189 (cancelled)
The Whistler Estate, bequeathed by Rosalind Birnie Philip, 1958
Hunterian Art Gallery, GLAHA 49965

Whistler developed the copper plate through numerous states (he kept moving the pigeons!) and cancelled it with a giant butterfly in 1889.