Fishing-boat

Fishing-boat

Item Information

Title:
Fishing-boat
Title (alt.):
The fishing-boat
Description:
In the center, moored to one of a cluster of posts, lies a fishing-boat. A man is seated in the boat, under an awning spread below nets hung on a pole upheld by two masts. In the distance, at the right, appear the Dogana and the dome of the Salute, and indications of several boats.
Artist:
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
Date:
[1879–1880] (created)
[1886] (issued)
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Marine prints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs, Etchings, and Drawings
Subjects:
Fishing boats
Fishing
Fishermen
Places:
Italy > Venetan (region) > Venezia (province) > Venice
Extent:
1 print : etching ; sheet 17 x 23 cm
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Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Alternative title from item.
Kennedy: K. 208
Handwritten on item: One of twenty-six etchings, 2nd Venetian set
Notes (ownership):
From the Judson S. Dutcher Collection.
Notes (date):
Dates supplied by cataloger based on artist's dates of work in Venice and publication of the material.
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 five.
The man's face is now dark, owing to printing; the lines of the awning over and to the right of his head have been rubbed down and are confused (H. Mansfield).
Very fine impression on thin 18th-century paper.
Signed artist's proof printed by the artist. Very rare.
Identifier:
17_14_000161
W. 397 (no longer used)
Barcode:
36666000185930