Etching and drypoint printed in dark brownish black on antique cream laid paper, 1879-80. 298x203 mm; 11 3/4x8 inches. MacDonald's second state (of 3), before the butterfly signature in the plate center left and still with light pentimenti of figures and objects in the lower third of the plate and with remnants of acid droplets along the right edge of the plate. Edition of approximately only 30. Signed with the butterfly and inscribed "imp" in pencil on the tab, lower left. From Twenty-Six Etchings. A very good, well-inked impression with all the details distinct.
According to MacDonald, this etching shows the street and steps to, "The Rialto bridge over the Grand Canal, Venice . . . The view is from a first floor window above the Sottoportico Pirieta in the Campo San Bartolomeo, San Marco, looking west to the Rialto Bridge. It shows the Fabriche Vecchie and the campanile of San Giovanni Elemosinario on the far side of the Grand Canal." Kennedy 211; Glasgow 199.
