Venice, 1879/1880

Not on View

Medium

etching with gray wash on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 20 x 29.5 cm (7 7/8 x 11 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Julius L. and Anita Zelman Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 213, state i/i

Accession Number

1984.14.1

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

in grey ink at lower right: (butterfly)

Provenance

Howard Mansfield [1849-1938], New York; (sold through A. A. Hahlo & Co., New York); Harris G. Whittemore, Naugatuck, CT, (L.S.1384a), 1919. Henry Harper Benedict [1844-1935], New York, (L.2936). R. L. Mayer (not in Lugt). Purchased from the Julius L. and Anita Zelman Fund for the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1984.

Associated Names

Hom, Jem, Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1986: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 1986.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 231.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock.James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné. University of Glasgow on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 213, state i/i.