On the Riva, from Pennell's Window

1883

Joseph Pennell

Artist, American, 1857 - 1926

Frederick Goulding

Printer, British, 1842 - 1909

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20.96 × 26.35 cm (8 1/4 × 10 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 25.08 × 31.12 cm (9 7/8 × 12 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.3295

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wuerth 1988, no. 74


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(William P. Carl Fine Arts, Northampton, Massachusetts); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2003

  • Whistler and His Circle in Venice, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003

Bibliography

1988

  • Wuerth, Louis A. Catalogue of the Etchings of Joseph Pennell. San Francisco, CA: Alan Wofsy Fine Art, 1988, p. 26, no. 74.

Inscriptions

lower center in graphite: Jo Pennell; lower left in graphite by unknown hand: 3 proofs only; lower center in graphite by unknown hand: Before the etched sky behind the church; lower right in graphite by unknown hand: Trial by Goulding; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: On the Riva, from Pennell's Window; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: Ho.

Wikidata ID

Q77010195


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