Title: The Mast (The Venetian Mast)
Object type: Print
Date: 1879–80
Portfolio: First Venice Set ("Venice: Twelve Etchings," 1880)
Artist:  James McNeill Whistler 
Artist bio: American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on heavy laid ivory paper; sixth state of twelve (Glasgow)
Dimensions: Plate: 13 3/8 × 6 in. (34 × 15.3 cm)
Sheet: 17 15/16 × 12 1/2 in. (45.5 × 31.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Human Figures, term: Buildings, term: Venice