The Fishmarket, Venice, No. 2
Sir Muirhead Bone was a Scottish printmaker and watercolor artist noted for his depictions of architectural and industrial subjects, city views, landscapes, and his work as a war artist in both the First and Second World Wars. He visited Italy from 1910-12. Here, Bone presents a grandly colonnaded interior of a fishmarket with a high wooden ceiling and open arcades on both sides; sunlight emanates from the arcade at left. Three fish vendors converse in the lower left foreground; fish stalls line the shopper's aisle from the lower right foreground to the vaulted portico in the background. In the central aisle, a flat, large round basket is shown balancing upon the head of a tall figure. Bone's print captures the bustling fish market activity of Venice's Mercato di Rialto.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Fishmarket, Venice, No. 2
- Artist: Sir Muirhead Bone (British, Glasgow, Scotland 1876–1953 Oxford)
- Date: 1915
- Medium: Drypoint
- Dimensions: Plate: 8 7/8 × 11 7/16 in. (22.5 × 29 cm)
Sheet: 10 3/4 × 15 13/16 in. (27.3 × 40.2 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
- Object Number: 17.3.751
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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