Venetian night
Item Information
- Title:
- Venetian night
- Title (alt.):
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A Venetian night
- Description:
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In a gondola that drifts along a Venetian canal a man stands playing on a violin. His figure is silhouetted against a blaze of light on the lower storey of a place beyond.
- 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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Etchings
- 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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Canals
Castles & palaces
Gondolas
Gondoliers
Night
- Places:
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Italy > Venetan (region) > Venezia (province) > Venice
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 28 x 43 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/p8419f311
- Terms of Use:
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Copyright (c) James McBey
All rights reserved.
- Notes:
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Title from catalogue raisonné.
Alternative title(s) from item or accompanying material.
Hardie and Carter: H. 254
Additional information accompanying item: Considerable added work in reflection in water at right of plate which are now carried to bottom edge. Reflections of doorway in centre of plate and of palace at left added. Upright poles added at base of palace at left.
- Notes (date):
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Date from item or from accompanying material.
Etched in 1925.
- Notes (citation):
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Hardie, Martin, Charles Carter. The etchings and drypoints of James McBey 1st ed. (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1991).
- Notes (object):
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Trial proof (3). Reflections are added on the water right across the plate.
- Identifier:
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17_06_000618
W. 3034 (no longer used)
- Barcode:
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36666000007209