A Venetian Street
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): 20.7 × 16 cm (8 1/8 × 6 5/16 in.)
page size: 34.8 × 27 cm (13 11/16 × 10 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.130
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Stieglitz Estate Number
58E
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
145
Associated Artworks
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Sun Prints, 3
Alfred Stieglitz
1887
Interrupted
Alfred Stieglitz
1894
Sunlight
Alfred Stieglitz
1894
Alfred Stieglitz
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 145.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, upper right, in graphite: "A Venetian Street."
Wikidata ID
Q64037798
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2006.3.1.8
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:
1895, Brussels (as Un Coin de Venise)
1895, London, Salon (no. 309, as A Bit of Venice)
possibly 1896, Berlin (as Venedig)
1897, Calcutta (no. 202, as A Bit of Venice)
1897, New York, Knickerbocker (as A Bit of Venice, lantern slide)
1897, London, R.P.S. (nos. 223 and 440, as A Venetian Canal, carbon and lantern slide)
1898, New York (no. 11, as A Bit of Venice)
1899, New York, Camera Club (nos. 14, 64, 64a, as A Venetian Canal, 1894–1895, carbon enlargement; 1894-1899, platinum direct; and 1894-1899, bichromate gum)
1899, Newark (no. 244, as A Bit of Venice)
1908, Toronto (no. 90, as Canal, Venice)
1934, New York (no. 17, as Venetian Canal, gelatin silver)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
“Alfred Stieglitz and His Latest Work,” The Photographic Times 284 (April 1896): 163 (ill., A Bit of Venice)
Camera Notes 1:2 (October 1897): 45 (ill., A Bit of Venice, photogravure)
Picturesque Bits of New York and Other Studies (New York, 1897): unnumbered (ill., A Venetian Canal)
The Photographic Times 30 (June 1898): opp. 241 (ill., A Bit of Venice, photogravure)
American Pictorial Photography, Series I [published by Camera Notes] (New York, 1899): pl. 2 (ill., Reflections—Venice, photogravure in blue)
Photographische Rundschau 14:12 (1900): between 244 and 245 (ill., Bit of Venice, photogravure)
Die Photographische Kunst im Jahre 1902: Ein Jahrbuch für Künstlerische Photographie: 127 (ill., untitled)
Sadakichi Hartmann, “Aesthetic Activity in Photography,” Brush and Pencil 14:1 (April 1904): 41 (ill., A Bit of Venice)