Venice, the City of Dreams

View of Venice; foreground, mooring posts, moored gondolas and a canalside house with a canopied balcony and an arched entrance from the canal; middleground, a gondola with an oarsman and passengers, trees and canal side houses with shuttered windows, chimneys and tiled roofs; background, the domes and towers of the church of Santa Maria della Salute and the waterfront buildings of Punta Della Dogana. Etched with a varied but narrow line including some cross hatching. Stopping out used for the lighter tones of the background buildings. Some ubiquitous horizontal wiping of the plate