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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

boats

drypoint

drypoints

etching

intaglio printing

intaglio prints

ports

Related Places

Depicts: Venezia

Description

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."

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