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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12103
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
The Riva
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The Riva, no. 1
Series/Book Title: Venice, A Series of Twelve Etchings, 1880
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1879 - 1880
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303846

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed with tone at the platemark in brown ink on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 20.2 x 29.6 cm (7 15/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: butterfly tab; in plate: butterfly insignia
  • inscription: verso, lower edge, left of center, graphit: Riva # 1 W
  • inscription: verso, lower right corner, graphite: L S -
  • inscription: verso, lower left corner, graphite: : c266
  • collector's mark: verso, center left, black ink, stamped: RH [within circular borderline] [Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215 b)]
  • inscription: verso, right edge below center, graphite: [butterfly]
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 12,103 [Lugt 936]
  • inscription: on sheet margin tab hanging from lower platemark at left, graphite: [butterfly] imp.
  • inscription: to left of leftmost window in the leftmost building, etched: [butterfly]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Robert Hartshorne (L. 2215 b).
Edwin de T. Bechtel, (347a), Collector, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1947.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow iv/iv
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 192; Glasgow 221

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel
Accession Year
1947
Object Number
M12103
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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