The Long Lagoon

James Abbott McNeill Whistlerca. 1880

Details

Title: The Long Lagoon
Creator: James McNeill Whistler
Date Created: ca. 1880
Subject Keywords: Italy, Venice
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in pencil on tab, lower right: butterfly monogram and “imp.”; inscribed in pencil on verso, along lower edge: “D/Long Lagoon/YHx”
Set or Series Title: A Set of Twenty-six Etchings (The Second Venice Set)
Print State: First of two states
Object Type: Prints, 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), 1952
Materials & Techniques: Etching printed in brown ink on laid paper. Watermark: Cartouche with letters “LVC”
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: From the set "A Set of Twenty-six Etchings," known as the "Second Venice Set," published by Dowdeswell in 1886; according to original DAC catalog card: “Superb early proof, printed by the artist”
Dimensions: 1903
Bibliography: Kennedy 203 i/ii
Associated People: Created by James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903)
Accession Number: 1952.D3.14

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