ID: 700009048 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009048	Record Type: Movable Work

First Venice Set (etchings (prints); James Whistler; commissioned by the Fine Art Society; completed and exhibited in Dec...; National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australian Capital ...)

Note: The ‘Venice set’ was finally completed and exhibited in December 1880, twelve months late, to a generally favourable response. During his time in Venice Whistler had completed 60 etchings along with a large group of pastels. He later published a selection of a further 26 etchings that came to be known as the ‘Second Venice set’, printing them in variant states.

Titles:

First Venice Set (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Venice, Whistler. Twelve Etchings (First Venice Set) (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: collection

Work Types:

etchings (prints) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: completed and exhibited in December 1880

Creator Display:

James Whistler; commissioned by the Fine Art Society [preferred]

printmaker Whistler, James McNeill (American painter, printmaker, 1834-1903, active in England and France) [500012432]

commissioner (person who orders works) Fine Art Society (English repository, London, contemporary) [500301768]

Locations:

Current: National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia) [500307648] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Credit Line: From the Charles C. Cunningham collection of James McNeill Whistler etchings and lithographs, acquired 1978

Display Materials: etchings

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

Dimensions: unavailable

Cultures:

American (preferred)

General Subject:

landscapes (preferred)

cityscapes

Specific Subjects:

	Venice [7003006]
	.....() (TGN)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

..... Conceptual Works

.......... Conceptual Works by class: for movable works

............... First Venice Set

Sources and Contributors:
First Venice Set	........ [VP]
	........ National Gallery of Australia (2005)
Venice, Whistler. Twelve Etchings (First Venice Set)	........ [VP]
	........ National Gallery of Australia (2005)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... National Gallery of Australia (2005)