Upright Venice

1879-1880

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

James McNeill Whistler

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 25.4 × 17.78 cm (10 × 7 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8539

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 232, state ii/vii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Reputedly from the collection of Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934), London. Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b-c); gift to NGA, 1943.  

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2003

  • "Whistler and His Circle in Venice", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; The Grolier Club, New York, 2003, no. 52.

Bibliography

1910

  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 205.

1996

  • McNamara, Carloe and John Siewert. Whistler: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision. Ann Arbor, 1996: fig. 45a.

2012

  • MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 232, ii/vii. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk

Inscriptions

lower left on recto: C 27701; verson center: 32

Watermarks

partial eagle (not the same as Chicago watermark 114)

Wikidata ID

Q65021956

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