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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12102
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
The Piazzetta
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings, 1881 (First Venice Set)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1879 - 1880
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303845

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed with plate tone in brownish-black ink on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
sheet: 25.6 x 18 cm (10 1/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: butterfly tab
  • collector's mark: verso, below center,sepia ink, stamped in bown ink: BROOLYN MUSEUM / BROOKLYN, N. Y. [within a rectangular borderline] [Lugt 307b]
  • collector's mark: verso, below center, stamped in brown ink, with initials in graphite: Brooklyn Museum / COS / DUPLICATE [within a rectangular borderline] {not in Lugt]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, stamped in back ink: MS [within circular borderline]: [Morris Schapiro (Lugt 1918)]
  • inscription: tab, bottom sheet margin just below platemark, to left of center, graphite: [ butterfly ]. imp.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Brooklyn Museum (L. 307).
Morris Schapiro (L. 1918 bis)
Edwin de T. Bechtel, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1947.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasow viii/iv
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 189; Glasgow 218

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel
Accession Year
1947
Object Number
M12102
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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