Ponte del Piovan, 1880

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series Title

Venice, a Series of Twenty-six Etchings

Medium

etching and drypoint on Asian laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 22.7 x 15.24 cm (8 15/16 x 6 in.)

sheet (includes tab with signature): 23.65 x 15.24 cm (9 5/16 x 6 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 220, state vi/vi

Accession Number

1943.3.8544

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on plate in street sign: street sign: PONTE DEL PIOVAN / DETTO DEL VOLTO; on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly imp); on verso at lower centre:19; at lower right: Noxø or Nox6

Provenance

H. Wunderlich & Co., New York (stock no. a 81845?). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1931: Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

1952: Etchings and Other Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA, 1952-1953, no cat.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 209, vi/vi.

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. 220, state vi/vi.