Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

 

M.0779
The Little Back Canal

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: The Frick Collection, NY
Accession Number: 1915.3.40
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 10 13/16 x 8" (276 x 203 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'N 33/ 11 x 5 -'

The Little Back Canal

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The Little Back Canal, The Frick Collection
The Little Back Canal, The Frick Collection

This was probably drawn from a boat, looking east down the Rio de l'Isola, off the Rio de San Zan Degolà, in the sestiere of Santa Croce, Venice, Italy; the area, as Grieve writes, has been redeveloped, the canal filled in and the bridge destroyed. 1

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more] , pp. 61-62, repr. pl. 49, views repr. pl. 50-51.

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret