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SIDNEY LITTEN Chiesa dei Frari, Venice.
Etching and drypoint printed in dark brownish black on pale blue laid paper, circa 1928. 252x293 mm; 9 7/8x11 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 45/80 in pencil, lower margin. A superb, luminous impression with selective wiping.
An English etcher, Litten (1887-1934) was a student of Frank Short's, see lot 87, and deeply influenced by Whistler's Venetian etchings, evident in this view of a gondolier in front of a church façade on a moonlit evening.
