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

 

M.0804
From the Steps of the Piazzetta

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pastel
Support: brown paper
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown

From the Steps of the Piazzetta

From the Steps of the Piazzetta dates from 1880. It is known only from a Punch cartoon and an illustration by Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913). 1

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 804).

Notes:

1: Way 1912 [more] , repr. f.p. 52. Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Venice; or, Pastels by Pastelthwaite', Punch, vol. 80, 12 February 1881, p. 69.

Last updated: 11th February 2021 by Margaret