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

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M.0818
San Biagio; flesh-colour and grey

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
Accession Number: 0198
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: dark grey paper with impressed 'F'
Size: 7 9/16 x 11 5/16" (192 x 288 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: '5 4/8 x 10 1/8' in unknown hand

San Biagio; flesh-colour and grey

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San Biagio; flesh-colour and grey, The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
San Biagio; flesh-colour and grey, The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
San Giorgio Maggiore, photograph, Archives of the Whistler Paintings Project, Glasgow University Library, 1990s
San Giorgio Maggiore, photograph, Archives of the Whistler Paintings Project, Glasgow University Library, 1990s

Venice, Italy. The view south-east across the bay from the Riva degli Schiavoni to the Riva San Biagio. 1 It is a quiet area, in the Castello, the most eastern part of the city.

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more] , pp. 168, 170, repr. pl. 217, view repr. pl. 218.

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