Seguso
Item Information
- Title:
- Seguso
- Description:
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Seguso, the well -known glass blower of Murano, is seated before a furnace, spinning the tube on which a vessel is being made. This figure was used in the foreground of the following plate.
- Artist:
- McBey, James, 1883-1959
- Name on Item:
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James McBey
- Date:
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1925–1930
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Drypoints
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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James McBey (1883-1959). Prints and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Glassblowing
Glassworkers
Furnaces
- Places:
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Italy > Venetan (region) > Venezia (province) > Murano, Isola di (island)
- Extent:
- 1 print : drypoint ; plate mark 23 x 18 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/p8419101t
- Terms of Use:
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Copyright (c) James McBey
All rights reserved.
- Notes:
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Title from catalogue raisonné.
Hardie and Carter: H. 242
Additional information accompanying item: The background considerably darkened by heavy diagonal lines. Additional work above and on door of furnace. Trials proofs only. There was no published edition.
- Notes (date):
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Date from item or from accompanying material.
Etched in 1925.
- Notes (citation):
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Hardie, Martin, and Charles Carter. "The etchings and drypoints of James McBey (1883-1959)." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1997, San Francisco.
- Notes (object):
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Trial proof (2). The whole of the background has been darkened.
- Identifier:
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17_06_000528
W. 3211 (no longer used)
- Barcode:
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36666000194130
