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Sketch for the Selection and Arrangement of Whistler’s First Venice Set
James Abbott McNeill Whistlerca. 1879-1880
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Sketch for the Selection and Arrangement of Whistler’s First Venice Set
- Creator: James McNeill Whistler
- Date Created: ca. 1879-1880
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Unsigned; inscribed, verso: small sketch of an arched doorway
- Object Type: Drawings, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1947
- Materials & Techniques: Pencil drawing on white laid paper
- Keywords: Italy, sketches, Venice
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Dimensions: Sheet dimensions: 113 mm x 177 mm (4.45 in. x 6.97 in.).
- Bibliography: Deanna Marohn Bendix, Diabolical Designs (Smithsonian Institution, 1995), fig. 83, p. 219
- Associated People: Created by James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903)
- Accession Number: 1947.D1.303
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