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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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/p8419f49g
- 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: Signed in the plate McBey Venice 19, September 1925. Proof no. XXVII of the published edition of 80 proofs.
- 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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Published state. The signature added. Edition of 81 proofs: I-LX (British edition); AI-AXX (American edition). One additional proof, unnumbered, given to the Print Club of Philadelphia.
- Identifier:
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17_06_000627
W. 3090 (no longer used)
- Barcode:
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36666000007290
