Antique Drypoint Etching After James McNeill Whistler’s 1880 Venice Street Scene

As shown. See all photos. To the best of my knowledge this is not an original by Whistler. It is unsigned and unattributed. Wish I had the backstory, but there’s no one left for me to ask. The image itself is in good condition. A mouse munched edge. Great to frame. 14” x 12”

“‘The Traghetto (No.2)' etching and drypoint by James McNeill Whistler, 1880, from Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings, published by the Fine Art Society, London, 1880.”

“In 1879 Whistler was commissioned by the Fine Art Society to make a set of etchings of Venice. This is a printmaking technique in which acid is used to bite lines in a metal plate. These lines are filled with ink, then printed on to paper.

Whistler was one of the first artists to put his pencilled signature to a print. This practice grew up during the second half of the 19th century in order to identify works printed from surfaces made by the artist him- or herself, as opposed to reproductions of works originally created in other media.”