Boston Public LibraryJames McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs, Etchings, and Drawings / American Artists
The beggars
Item Information
- Title:
- The beggars
- Description:
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A dark passageway, roofed with beams, leads to a sunlit street, across which a house shows a doorway and two windows and a balcony. Above the opening in front, there hangs a large lantern. Within the passageway, at the right, two figures are standing by the wall, and farther along a man is walking away; on the left, at the street opening, are two women carrying baskets suspended from poles balanced on their shoulders. Across the street a man is walking towards the left.
- Artist:
- Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
- Date:
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[1879–1880]
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Portrait prints
Group portraits
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs, Etchings, and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Passageways
- Places:
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Italy > Venetan (region) > Venezia (province) > Venice
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; sheet 31 x 21 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076p71q
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Notes:
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Title from catalogue raisonné.
Kennedy: K. 194
Additional information accompanying item: First Venetian set
- Notes (date):
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Date supplied by cataloger based on artist's dates of work in Venice.
This date is inferred.
- Notes (citation):
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Kennedy, Edward G. (Edward Guthrie). "The etched work of Whistler ; compiled, arranged and described by Edward G. Kennedy, with an introduction by Royal Cortissoz." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1978, San Francisco.
- Notes (object):
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Variation of fifth state.
The figure of the man has been burnished out and redrawn roughly; the crown of the hat is unfinished, and the whole outline of the figure indefinite. Parallel diagonal lines of shading extend from the woman almost to the feet of the man (the late W. S. Carter).
- Identifier:
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17_14_000155
W. 421 (no longer used)
- Barcode:
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36666000185872
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