An etching on paper depicting a cityscape scene after the original etching and drypoint printed in dark umber ink on antique laid paper, The Traghetto, No. 2, from the First Venice Set, Venice: Twelve Etchings, 1880, by James McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 to 1903. Framed. James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo art for art's sake. American and European Graphic Art Prints and Collectibles.