Upright Venice
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Upright Venice, 1879/1880, etching and drypoint on cream laid paper, Museum Purchase: Funds provided by Friends of the Gilkey Center and the Elly Guerin Jackson Memorial Fund, public domain, 2009.85
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- Title
Upright Venice
- Related Titles
series (original language): Second Venice Set
- Artist
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, active England and France, 1834-1903)
- Date
1879/1880
- Medium
etching and drypoint on cream laid paper
- State
ii/iv
- Catalogue Raisonné
Glasgow 232
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
plate: 10 in x 6 15/16 in; sheet (trimmed to platemark): 10 1/4 in x 6 15/16 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
inscription: X, graphite, verso lower center
inscription: 26, graphite, verso lower center
title: Upright Venice, graphite, verso lower left Language: English
inscription: a48137, graphite, verso lower left
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
intaglio print
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Funds provided by Friends of the Gilkey Center and the Elly Guerin Jackson Memorial Fund
- Accession Number
2009.85
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
- Related Places
Depicts: Venezia
Following the publication of his first set of images of Venice in 1880, Whistler issued an additional suite of prints in 1888, now commonly known as the "Second Venice Set." This composition was lauded for Whistler's draftsmanship; critic John Forbes-Robertson praised the artist’s rendering of "gondolas darting about in the quiet lagoon, while the city rises stately and grand in the distance."
- Exhibitions
2015 Now on View: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings Spanning 500 Years Portland Art Museum
2017 The Etchings of Whistler and His Circle Portland Art Museum