Riva degli Schiavoni, No. 1

1880

Frank Duveneck

Associated Names
Frank Duveneck

Artist, American, 1848 - 1919

The image depicts a busy port scene seen from an elevated perspective. Buildings line the horizon, seamlessly transitioning into the sky. The artwork features detailed linework and a monochromatic color palette of black and white. Figures are scattered across a paved surface, with ships moored in the water nearby.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and roulette in black with chine collé on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 22.23 × 33.66 cm (8 3/4 × 13 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 35.88 × 46.99 cm (14 1/8 × 18 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3702

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Poole 1938, no. 12

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Charles Sessler, New York); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA, 1928; gift to NGA, 1943

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1986

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1986-1987.

Bibliography

1938

  • Poole, Emily. "Catalogue of the Etchings of Frank Duveneck." _The Print Collector's Quarterly, vol. 25, 1938: 451, no. 12.

Inscriptions

signed lower left in plate: FD [monogram, F backwards]; loer right in graphite: F. Duveneck

Markings

stamped verso in black ink: LJR / National Gallery of Art

Wikidata ID

Q64956833

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