JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Quiet...

venice etchings second drypoint dowdeswell subjects right palazzo etching printed pratice dark prow approximately published exhibited fully corner axel-barozzi drew warm london edition plate including held reversedly italy popular state furthest twenty-six scarce bridge soranzo-venier-sanudo-van painted directly whistler quiet canal brownish early fourth pentimenti redrawn gondola darkening scratches impression tone whistler's society december july focused copper well-inked door black antique cream laid macdonald's seated center foreground doorway inscribed pencil 1886 fine 1880 larger exhibition varied dramatically 1887 incomplete artist's scene east rialto photographed decorative 15th century wooden paper butterfly lower details sets death macdonald 1879-80 229x150 inches margins signed left superb distinct 1883 printings 1903 according kennedy glasgow 30,000 james