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Artist/Maker
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
(American, 1834 - 1903)
Date1879-80
MediumEtching and drypoint
DimensionsPlate: 11 1/2 in. × 8 in. (29.2 × 20.3 cm)
Composition: 10 × 7 3/4 in. (25.4 × 19.7 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/4 × 8 1/4 in. (31.1 × 21 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Committee on the Visual Arts in memory of William G. Roehrick, Class of 1934
Object number1998.6
Not on view
Collections
Additional Details
Alternate Titles
First Venice Set
Exhibition History
2005
Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "Hamilton Collects: A Century of Curiosities: The Story of the Hamilton College Collection", September 29 - December 30, 2005 (unnumbered cat.)
2007
Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "Highlights from the Permanent Collection," February 19 - April 15, 2007(no catalog).
Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "Hamilton Collects: A Century of Curiosities: The Story of the Hamilton College Collection", September 29 - December 30, 2005 (unnumbered cat.)
2007
Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "Highlights from the Permanent Collection," February 19 - April 15, 2007(no catalog).
Provenance
1998: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), purchased from Paul McCarron & Susan Schulman.
before 1931: Carl Sachs, Breslau (per his collector's stamp, Lugt 634a).
before 1931: Carl Sachs, Breslau (per his collector's stamp, Lugt 634a).
Markings
Stamp: "CS [encircled]" on verso at lower left in brown ink.
Signature
Signed "Whistler" in pencil (very faded) at lower left.
Inscribed
"The Doorway / N188/5 Ny. 608 st." on verso along bottom edge in pencil.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Date: published November 1858
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1928.25
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Date: 1895 (published February 15, 1897)
Medium: Lithograph
Object number: 1928.26
James Penney
Date: 1962-63
Medium: Oil on masonite
Object number: 2002.29.1
John James Audubon
Date: published 1832
Medium: Engraving and aquatint with hand-coloring
Object number: 1985.20
James Anderson
Date: 1875-1900
Medium: Albumen print
Object number: S2018.2.402