Laguna, Venice

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Laguna, Venice, 1880. Etching on ivory laid paper.

Etching on ivory laid paper · Image/plate: 19.6 × 34.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago

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Museum title: Laguna, Venice
Artist: Frank Duveneck American, 1848-1919
Date: 1880
Medium: Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: Image/plate: 19.6 × 34.1 cm (7 3/4 × 13 7/16 in.); Sheet: 22.8 × 37.1 cm (9 × 14 5/8 in.)
Credit line: The Charles Deering Collection
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1848–1919

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.