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Venetian Landscape

Collection Type

  • Art

GUSN

GUSN-202708

Description

Watercolor of Venetian buildings and boats. Buildings with towers and domes prominent at left and fade into distance right. Water in foreground and right. Prominent boat at center has red and white sails. Set in a gold mat and gold wooden frame with a smooth finish around inside with an applied plaster leafy pattern along edges. Label on back reads: "Above piano." Also pencil marking in bottom right (back) "33."

Details

Descriptive Terms

paintings (visual works)
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
Picture
Landscape
Landscape

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Additional Identification Number

P228

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

26 13/16 x 38 4/16 x 2 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.651

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