On the Riva, from Pennell's Window, 1883

Not on View

Medium

etching in black on wove paper

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

Catalogue Raisonné

Wuerth 1988, no. 74

Accession Number

2015.19.3295

Artists / Makers

Joseph Pennell (artist) American, 1857 - 1926

Frederick Goulding (printer) British, 1842 - 1909

Image Use

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Inscription

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.

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

Carl, William
Corcoran Gallery of Art
William P. Carl Fine Arts

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.