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The mast

The mast

Item Information

Title:
The mast
Description:
Erected in a wide street, with high buildings on either side, is a tall mast with halyards looped to a building at the left. In the foreground, women and girls are seated in a group, sewing. A boy stands near them. At the right a man is walking away, and a boy stands at the foot of the mast. There are numerous figures in the distance.
Artist:
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
Date:
[1879–1880]
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs, Etchings, and Drawings
Subjects:
Mooring masts
Sitting
Sewing
Places:
Italy > Venetan (region) > Venezia (province) > Venice
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 35 x 17 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076p738
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Kennedy: K. 195
Handwritten on item: One of 12 etchings (First Venetian set)
Notes (date):
Date supplied by cataloger based on artist's dates of work in Venice.
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
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):
Fifth state of six.
The background is cleaned, and the butterfly added above the head of the boy at left (J. S. Dutcher).
Identifier:
17_14_000156
W. 997 (no longer used)
Barcode:
36666000185880