The Doorway, from The First Venice Set
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903
1879-1880
Etching and drypoint on wove paper
ii/VII, trial proof for "Venice: Twelve Etchings"
Plate: 11 7/16 × 7 15/16 in. (29.1 × 20.2 cm)
Sheet: 11 7/8 × 8 3/8 in. (30.2 × 21.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Charlotte Mathey
PR.985.6.4
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower left margin: butterfly device; signed, in plate, upper left: large butterfly device
Course History
COCO 26, What's In Your Toolbox?, Moktar Bouba and Tania Convertini, Fall 2021
Exhibition History
Whistler, Venice, and the American Etching Revival (in conjunction with Canaletto's Vedute Prints: An Exhibition in Honor of Adolf Weil, Jr.), Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 1-December 6, 2015..
Whistler, Venice, and the American Etching Revival, [American Works of Paper wall], Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 12, 2008-January 4, 2010.
Catalogue Raisonne
E. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910, no. 188. H. Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909, no. 185.
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