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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M21296
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Little Venice
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Venice, A Series of Twelve Etchings (First Venice Set) 1881
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1880
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303773

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in brownish black ink on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 18.5 x 26.6 cm (7 5/16 x 10 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: butterfly tab; in plate: butterfly insignia
  • inscription: verso, lower left corner, graphite: a22638
  • inscription: tab lower sheet edge just below platemark left of center, graphite: [butterfly] imp.
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with accession number written in graphite:

    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 21203 [Lugt 936]

  • inscription: lower left foreground, etched: [butterfky]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow i/ii
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 183; Glasgow 238

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Susan Norton
Accession Year
1990
Object Number
M21296
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997

Verification Level

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