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Nocturne (The "First Venice Set")

(American (active in England), 1834–1903)
1879–80
Medium/TechniqueEtching in brown ink
DimensionsPlatemark: 20 x 29.5 cm (7 7/8 x 11 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 20.5 x 29.5 cm (8 1/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Henry Lee Higginson
Accession number35.1196
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
Inscriptionsannotated by Whistler verso lower right in graphite: selected proof, and butterfly
ProvenanceMrs. Henry Lee Higginson, Sr., Boston; bequest to MFA, July 1935.
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