ID: 700009053 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009053	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

The Beggars (etching (print); James McNeill Whistler; 1879/1880; Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, Unit...; P.3-2008)

Note: This is one of the largest prints in the series, larger than the plates that Whistler brought with him from London; he ordered a plate specially from a local Venetian craftsman. The view shows a passageway leading from the enclosed Corte de la Carozze to the brightly lit Campo Santa Margarita in Dorsoduro. The figures were altered after his return to London, with the help of a separate drawing, and with the printer Thomas Way serving as a model. The remarkable depiction of light around the dark figure of the boatman on the right of the passageway became less prominent in later state changes made during the protracted process of printing the edition, which remained incomplete at Whistler's death.

Titles:

The Beggars (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

etching (print) [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: 1879/1880

Creator Display:

James McNeill Whistler [preferred]

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

Locations:

Current: Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom) [500219279] University of Cambridge, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: P.3-2008

Credit Line: Bought with the help of the Art Fund and the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund 2008

Display Materials: Etching and drypoint printed on 'antique' laid paper trimmed by the artist

	antique paper [300265569]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, paper (fiber product), <paper by form>)

	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)

	drypoint (printing process) [300053228]
	.......(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, engraving (printing process))

Dimensions: unavailable

General Subject:

architecture (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	beggars [300188618]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by activity>) (AAT)

	Venice [7018159]
	.....() (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

.................... The Beggars

Sources and Contributors:
The Beggars	........ [VP]
	........ Fitzwilliam Museum [online] (2000-)

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

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Fitzwilliam Museum [online] (2000-)