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

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M.0730
Venetian Palace

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879/1880
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen and ink
Support: white paper
Size: unknown, reproduction 3 x 1 3/8" (76 x 35 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Venetian Palace

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Venetian Palace, Gallatin 1912 repr.
Venetian Palace, Gallatin 1912 repr.

Venice, Italy. This is a detail of the building seen in Venetian Palace [M.0729].

Whistler sat in a gondola looking east under a bridge, the Ponte de l'Anzolo, to sketch the Palazzo Soranzo in the sestiere of San Marco/Castello, in Venice, Italy. 1

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more] , pp. 97-98

Last updated: 13th December 2018 by Margaret