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

 

M.0788
Bead stringers

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1905.124a-b
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper, laid down on card
Size: 10 13/16" x 4 1/2" (275 x 115 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Bead stringers

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Bead stringers, Freer Gallery of Art
Bead stringers, Freer Gallery of Art

A view down the narrow Calle Drio Erizzo to the Calle Crosera (which runs between the Campo de la Bragora and the Riva degli Schiavoni), in the sestiere of Castello, Venice, Italy. 1

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more] , pp. 152-53, repr. pl. 191, view repr. pl. 192.

Last updated: 16th February 2021 by Margaret