San Biagio, 1879?80, Etching and drypoint; tenth state of seventeen (Glasgow) ; printed in dark brown ink, Plate: 8 1/4 ? 11 7/8 in. (21 ? 30. 2 cm), Prints, James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834?1903 London), San Biagio describes a working-class Venetian neighborhood east of the Riva degli Schiavoni. In the foreground, two small boats have been pulled onto the bank and drying laundry is strung overhead. Whistler used these details to establish a range of textures but devoted more attention to establishing a series of visual planes linked by a shadowed passageway