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

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M.0731
Venetian canal

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879/1880
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pencil or crayon
Support: white paper
Size: unknown, reproduction 6 1/8 x 4 5/8" (156 x 117 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Venetian canal

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Venetian canal, Way 1912 repr.
Venetian canal, Way 1912 repr.

The Rio de le Erbe, off the Grand Canal, in the sestiere of San Polo, in Venice, Italy. Whistler was sitting in a gondola looking north to a little private bridge, and another bridge that originally crossed the canal to the Campiello de le Erbe, but is now demolished. 1

Notes:

1: Identified by Grieve 2000 [more] , pp. 68, 70, repr. pl. 64, view repr. pl. 65.

Last updated: 8th March 2021 by Margaret