Barcarolle
Item Information
- Title:
- Barcarolle
- Title (alt.):
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Barcarolle (second plate)
- Description:
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On a moonlight night a gondola is floating round the curve of a canal between palaces. The gondolier, with lifted head, sings his "barcarolle."
- Artist:
- McBey, James, 1883-1959
- Name on Item:
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James McBey
- Date:
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1925–1926
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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James McBey (1883-1959). Prints and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Canals
Castles & palaces
Gondolas
Gondoliers
- Places:
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Italy > Venetan (region) > Venezia (province) > Venice
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 38 x 21 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/p8418z815
- Terms of Use:
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Copyright (c) James McBey
All rights reserved.
- Notes:
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Title from catalogue raisonné.
Alternative title(s) from item or from accompanying material.
Hardie and Carter: H. 233
Additional information accompanying item: Appearance of water now changed by horizontal lines and wiping instead of vertical lines.
- Notes (date):
-
Date from item or from accompanying material.
Etched in 1925.
- Notes (citation):
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Hardie, Martin, and Charles Carter. "The etchings and drypoints of James McBey (1883-1959)." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1997, San Francisco.
- Notes (object):
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Trial proof (10). Perpendicular sand-paper marks on the water have been burnished down, and new lines, mainly horizontal, have been added.
- Identifier:
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17_06_000451
W. 2443 (no longer used)
- Barcode:
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36666000193629
