Quiet canal

Quiet canal

Item Information

Title:
Quiet canal
Description:
A narrow canal, passing an open landing-place at the right, above which a tree spreads its branches, winds to the left, between high buildings. Beyond a prow, slightly indicated, two boats, in one of which a man is seated, lie close to the landing place. An empty boat lies by the wall of the nearest house at the right, and another alongside three posts on the opposite side of the canal. On the landing place, a woman bends over the scarcely indicated parapet, and a man stands beyond her. There is no butterfly.
Artist:
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
Date:
[1879–1880] (created)
[1886] (issued)
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs, Etchings, and Drawings
Subjects:
Houses
Canals
Gondolas
Places:
Italy > Venetan (region) > Venezia (province) > Venice
Extent:
1 print : etching ; sheet 24 x 15 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. 214
Handwritten on item: One of twenty-six etchings, second Venetian set
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):
Fifth state of five.
The drypoint lines in the foreground have been erased (H. Mansfield).
Extremely rare. Good impression printed with a light tone of brownish ink.
Identifier:
17_14_000166
W. 306 (no longer used)
Barcode:
36666000185989