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The Riva | ||
Number: | 229 | |
Date: | 1879/1880 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 202 x 298 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | 'First Venice Set', 1880 | |
No. of States: | 4 | |
Known impressions: | 55 | |
Catalogues: | K.192; M.189; W.157 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (55) |
KEYWORD
TITLE
'The Riva' (1880, F.A.S.). 2
'Riva' (1883, F.A.S.). 3
'The Riva' (1886, Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921)). 4
'The Rival' (1900, Punch, Melbourne). 5
'The Riva. No. 1' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 6
'The Riva' (1910, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 7
'The Riva' is the original and generally accepted title. A similar view is entitled Riva, No. 2 [230]. However, the Australian variant, 'The Rival', is distinctly appealing!
2: Fine Art Society, [1 December 1880], GUW #12667.
3: London FAS 1883 (cat. no. 30).
4: Wedmore 1886 A (cat. no. 157).
5: Punch, East Melbourne, 14 June 1900.
6: Mansfield 1909 (cat. no. 189).
7: Kennedy 1910 (cat. no. 192).
DESCRIPTION
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Frank Duveneck (1848-1919) etched the same view from further along the Riva, The Riva looking towards the Grand Ducal Palace, which was very similar indeed to Whistler's etching. 9
8: Grieve 2000 , pp. 32, 107, 109, 189, fig. 124.
9: Emily Poole, 'The Etchings of Frank Duveneck,' The Print Collector’s Quarterly, October 1938, Vol. 25, Nos. 3-4 (cat. no. 13).