The embroidered curtain

The embroidered curtain

Item Information

Title:
The embroidered curtain
Description:
Across a cobblestone pavement bordering on a canal and faced by a wooden bulkhead, there are two adjoining house-fronts of similar construction. Each shows two doorways, adjacent to a large window above windows about a doorway opening upon the pavement, and in each second story is a square window flanked by two narrow windows. Below each central window is a square plaque, and on the wall at the left is a round plaque. In the large window at the right and in the window over the adjacent doorway is a curtain with a pattern. In the upper part of the doorway opening on the pavement at the left is the sign, Water te vuur." There are children on the pavement and people in all the doorways, except the doorway at the extreme right, which is closed. Two figures appear in open window at the right. There are extensive reflections in the canal. The butterfly, shaded, is on the round plaque.
Artist:
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
Date:
[1889]
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs, Etchings, and Drawings
Subjects:
Buildings
Canals
Places:
Netherlands > North Holland (province) > Amsterdam
Extent:
1 print : etching ; sheet 24 x 16 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076p011
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Kennedy: K. 410
Notes (ownership):
From the H. H. Benedict Collection.
Notes (date):
Date supplied by cataloger.
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):
Sixth state of seven.
The shading in the water and between the piles has been considerably reduced; the reflections of the children have reappeared, and those of the two doorways in centre are defined. Between the legs of the man in the doorway at right are several strong, nearly vertical lines, and the six short lines - about one eighth of an inch in length - at left of the faint figure of a child immediately under the door at extreme right, are now crossed by seven or eight slanting lines, running from right to left (H. H. Benedict).
Identifier:
17_14_000222
W. 362 (no longer used)
Barcode:
36666000185807