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First Night in Venice
Close up of First Night in Venice
Ellen Day Hale, First Night in Venice, 1890; Soft-ground etching with aquatint on paper, 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gift of Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay; Photo by Lee Stalsworth
Ellen Day Hale was among the wave of American artists, both men and women, who traveled to Europe for training in the last quarter of the 19th century.