The Little Lagoon, from The First Venice Set

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903

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1879-1880

Etching and drypoint on Japan paper

Overall: 8 7/8 × 6 in. (22.5 × 15.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Alden Guild, Class of 1952

PR.979.49

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in plate: butterfly device; stamped, on reverse: 1897

Provenance

Alden Guild (1929-2017), Montpelier, Vermont; given to the present collection, 1979.

Catalogue Raisonne

E. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler, San Francisco, 1978, no. 186ii. H. Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909, no. 183.

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