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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12099
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
The Traghetto, no. 2
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings, 1881 (First Venice Set)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1880
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303844

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white antique laid paper washed with brown on the front
Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
sheet: 21.5 x 30.7 cm (8 7/16 x 12 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: lower left corner, red stamp: Otto [within a rectangular borderline] [Otto Bacher (Lugt 2002)]
  • inscription: lower left, drypoint: butterfly
  • collector's mark: verso, brown-black stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 12,099 [Lugt 936]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Otto Henry Bacher (L. 2002). Edwin de T. Bechtel, gift to Fogg Art Museum
Edwin de T. Bechtel, (347a), Collector, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1947.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow i/ix
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 191; Glasgow 233

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel
Accession Year
1947
Object Number
M12099
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997

Verification Level

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