The Doorway from the "First Venice Set"

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

American Art

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).

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).

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.