A Venetian Well
1894, printed 1895/1896
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 9.2 × 11.4 cm (3 5/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
page size: 27 × 34.8 cm (10 5/8 × 13 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.124
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Stieglitz Estate Number
68C
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
158
Associated Artworks
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Sun Prints, 2
Alfred Stieglitz
1887
At Biarritz
Alfred Stieglitz
1890
Venice
Alfred Stieglitz
1894
Alfred Stieglitz
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2002
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 158.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, upper right, in graphite: A Venetian Well / 1894
Wikidata ID
Q64037680
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This photograph and Key Set number 159 are views of the Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo.
Stieglitz Collections
A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 83:0660:0034 [lantern slide] (inscribed: A Venetian Well. / 122)
Lifetime Exhibitions
A print from the same negative—perhaps a photograph from the Gallery’s collection—appeared in the following exhibition(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
possibly 1897, New York, Knickerbocker (as At the Well, lantern slide)
possibly 1897, London, R.P.S. (no. 440, as At the Well, Venice, lantern slide)
probably 1899, New York, Camera Club (no. 9, as A Venetian Well, 1894–1897, carbon enlargement)
1934, New York (no. 11, as A Venetian Well, 1894, or no. 22, as Venetian Well II, 1894, gelatin silver)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Photograms of the Year (London, 1896): 45 (ill., A Venetian Well)
The American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1897 (New York, 1896): 23 (ill., A Venetian Well)
W. I. Lincoln Adams, ed., Sunlight and Shadow (New York, 1897): 74 (ill., A Venetian Well)
Marmaduke Humphrey, “Triumphs in Amateur Photography,” Godey’s Magazine 135 (December 1897): 586 (ill., A Venetian Well)
F. Huber Hodge, “Amateur Photography,” The Home Magazine 11:2 (August 1898): 191 (ill., A Venetian Well)
The Photographic Times 31 (December 1899): opp. 545 (ill., A Venetian Well, photogravure)