Ponte del Piovan from The Second Venice Set (K209 VI)

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Ponte del Piovan from The Second Venice Set (K209 VI)

Artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903)

Date1879-1880 (published 1886)

DimensionsOverall: 8 15/16 × 6 in. (22.7 × 15.2 cm)

MediumEtching

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Mrs. S. C. Walbridge

Object number

1933.58

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Exhibition HistoryAbove Water: Bridges from the Collection July 20 - Oct. 21 2007. TMA, Whistler: Influences, Friends, and the Not-So-Friendly, Feb. 26 - May 30, 2010.Label TextOf Whistler’s etching technique the artist/biographer Otto H. Bacher, whose artwork is also included in this exhibition, wrote: “In etching he would get the essential lines, holding the copper plate in one hand, generally the left, and with the other he spun web-like lines of exquisite beauty—fascinating to see in the beginning as in the end. Where it required accuracy, he was minute. He used the [etching] needle with the ease of the draftsman with a pen. He grouped his lines in an easy, playful way that was fascinating: they would often group themselves as tones, a difficult thing to get in an etching.”