Traghetto | ||
Number: | 231 | |
Date: | 1879/1880 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 240 x 311 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at lower left (1-2); replaced with new butterfly (3-final) | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 4 | |
Known impressions: | 7 | |
Catalogues: | K.190; M.187 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (7) |
KEYWORD
arch, canal, courtyard, gondola, ferry, lantern, man, palace, , people, tree, worker.
TITLE
There are minor variations in the title, as follows:
'Traghetto' (1891, Whistler). 2
'The Traghetto' (1902, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 3
'The Traghetto. No. 1' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 4
'The Traghetto, No. 1' (1910, E.G. Kennedy). 5
'Traghetto' is Whistler's original title. This etching can be confused with the later version of the scene, The Traghetto 233, which is unavoidable.
'Traghetto' (1891, Whistler). 2
'The Traghetto' (1902, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 3
'The Traghetto. No. 1' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 4
'The Traghetto, No. 1' (1910, E.G. Kennedy). 5
'Traghetto' is Whistler's original title. This etching can be confused with the later version of the scene, The Traghetto 233, which is unavoidable.
DESCRIPTION
In the centre is a broad arch, the entrance to a dark passageway underneath a building, leading to a canal. The passage is roofed with beams, and lit, towards the far end, by a lantern. A seated man can be seen beyond the passage, at the left, and the canopy of a gondola on the right. In the foreground, in a courtyard, three slender trees are growing. In the wall to left of the arch is a window with lozenge-shaped panes, and at the right are two windows. There are men in the right foreground. For later changes, see STATES.
SITE
![Etching: c_K190_01](../../images/etch_t/c_K190_01_001.jpg)
The
site is the courtyard of the Ca’ da Mosto, north of the
Rialto bridge in the district of Cannaregio, Venice, Italy. 6 This view, drawn accurately on the copper plate, is reversed, as usual, in the print. This is the first version of The Traghetto 233.
6: Grieve 2000[more], pp. 83–84.