Windy night, Stockholm

Windy night, Stockholm

Item Information

Title:
Windy night, Stockholm
Description:
In the foreground is the Norrström, in which float six boats, each carrying a round floating net; they are moored to the wall of the Strömparterren (a public garden) on Helgeandsholmen. People lean on the rails, watching the fishing-boats. Two poplars sway in the wind towards the left. In between the trees is seen a fountain, with a statue rising from its center. Beyond a bridge (Norrbro) is the Opera House, the facade of which is brilliantly lighted. Night effect, with black stormy sky. Topographically incorrect, the subject being shown in reverse from the trial plate, which was true to nature. The two men standing in the sixth boat are black. The water, trees and fountain are more finished. There is slight additional horizontal shading on the white part of the wall. There are many light dry-point marks on the left margin, arid one similar group near the foot of the plate on the right. With five vertical strokes extended into the white patch but before the signature.
Artist:
Bone, Muirhead, Sir, 1876-1953
Name on Item:
Muirhead Bone
Date:
1935
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Drypoints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Sir Muirhead Bone (1876-1953). Prints, Drawings, and Paintings
Subjects:
Rivers
Cities & towns
Fishing boats
Fishing nets
Opera houses
Trees
Kungliga Operan (Stockholm, Sweden)
Places:
Sweden > Stockholm (county) > Stockholm
Kungliga Operan
Extent:
1 print : drypoint ; plate mark 302 x 221 mm
Permalink:
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Terms of Use:
Copyright (c) Muirhead Bone
All rights reserved.
Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Dodgson number: 457, II/III.
Handwritten on item: For Albert H. Wiggin this print is inscribed by a grateful Muirhead Bone in the memory of his unfailing consideration.
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
Dodgson, Campbell. "Continuation of Etchings & Dry Points by Muirhead Bone. I. 1898-1907 : A Catalogue by Campbell Dodgson." Obach & Co., 1909, London.
Notes (object):
Intermediate state between the second and third states of ten.
Identifier:
17_04_000467
W. 3839 (no longer used)
Barcode:
36666000197042