The traghetto, no. 2

The traghetto, no. 2

Item Information

Title:
The traghetto, no. 2
Description:
Under a broad round arch, a dark passageway, paved with large stones and roofed with heavy beams, leads through a building to an opening, under a flat arch, on a canal. In front of the building are three slender trees with spreading foliage, and at the right four men are seated about a table. Through the archway gondolas are seen, on one of which a man is seated. The removed canopy of a gondola rests upon the pavement at the right, near the opening of the canal. In the outer wall there are two windows at the right of the arch and there is one window at the left.
Artist:
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
Date:
[1879–1880]
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs, Etchings, and Drawings
Subjects:
Arches
Passageways
Places:
Italy > Venetan (region) > Venezia (province) > Venice
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 24 x 31 cm
Permalink:
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Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Kennedy: K. 191
Handwritten on item: One of twelve etchings (First Venetian set)
Notes (acquisition):
Knoedler, August 1923
Notes (date):
Date supplied by cataloger based on artist's dates of work in Venice.
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Kennedy, Edward G. (Edward Guthrie). "The etched work of Whistler ; compiled, arranged and described by Edward G. Kennedy, with an introduction by Royal Cortissoz." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1978, San Francisco.
Notes (object):
Fourth state of six.
There are touches of new work in the archway, on the carafe, and on the hat of the man at the left of the table. Two of the irregular white spaces in the archway, below and at left of the lamp, are covered with lines (Mrs. Bayard Thayer).
Identifier:
17_14_000188
W. 993 (no longer used)
Barcode:
36666000188645