Drury Lane / James McNeill Whistler
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.136
- Title
- Drury Lane
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Medium and Support
- etching, printed in dark brown ink on laid paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1880-1881
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta R. Spink
- Dimensions
- 17 cm x 10 cm (6 11/16 in. x 3 15/16 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Physical Description
- Five children (some only partially rendered) stand before a covered passageway of a building with the lower part of a second story window visible. Through the passageway in the midle distance can be seen a street corner with a woman on the sidewalk, and beyond that additional shops with men on the sidewalk. At the upper right is a flower-like form that is the artist's "butterfly" signature.
- Subject Matter
- Included in the "Second Venice Set", although a view of London, this image continues the theme explored in Whistler's Venetian etchings (executed 1879-80): playing with the notion of multiple views framed by doors, passages, etc. In many ways, this work is an extension of "The Beggars", an etching done in Venice showing figures situated before, in, and through the framing device of a covered passageway.
- Secondary Keywords
- architectural elements
- buildings and the land
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- objects we use
- open spaces
- open spaces and site elements
- open spaces by function
- openings (architectural elements)
- openings and opening components
- openings by form
- roads
- roads by form
- streets
- streets by form
- transportation spaces
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- windows and window components
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 979 x 1440
- File Size
- 160 KB
- Record
- 2001/2.136
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2001-sl-2.136/2001_2.136.jpg
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"Drury Lane; James McNeill Whistler." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2001-sl-2.136/2001_2.136.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
