Venice
date: label: Date
content: 1879-1880
name: label: Artist
content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
notes: label: Label
content: Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonne," by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G213 state 1 of 1.
label: Provenance
content: From 1880 to 1904
label: Provenance
content: Otto H. Bacher (1856-1909), New York, acquired from the artist in 1880 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1904 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Otto H. Bacher in 1904 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] According Curatorial Remark 2, an undated folder sheet note, in the object record: "Note on original list: One of five or six proofs of the plate. This particular impression was presented by Mr. Whistler to Otto F. Bacher, October, 1880." See also, Original Whistler List, Etchings, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler (March 23, 1925 to March 24, 1930)
label: Exhibition History
content: Special Exhibition, Whistler Etchings and Lithographs (January 14, 1924 to February 18, 1924)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Otto H. Bacher (1856-1909) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: United States
topic: label: Topic
content: drypoint
label: Topic
content: boat
label: Topic
content: architecture
label: Topic
content: United States
label: Topic
content: American Art
label: Topic
content: city
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1904.294
objectType: label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Drypoint; ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 20 x 29.1 cm (7 7/8 x 11 7/16 in)