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| | Whistler - AMAM |
 | | Little Venice, the most successful of the daytime views, includes such famous and recognizable sites as the Public Gardens on the left, Santa Maria della Salute, and the campanile and dome of San Giorgio Maggiore. |
 | | Another early proof impression of Little Venice (Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow)11 uses plate tone along the sides and corners to frame the view, while the plate tone in other impressions printed by the artist ranges from minimal, to thin and luminous overall, to rich and dark. |
 | | The emptiness of Little Venice, as in all Whistler's panoramic Venetian views, derives from reductive compositions first explored in his painted Nocturnes of the 1870s, and possibly even earlier in an etching (Opposite the Inn, Purfleet, ca. |
| www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/whistler.html (1943 words) |
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