TitleZaltieri
Artist
Otto H. Bacher
(American, 1856 - 1909)
Date1880
MediumEtching on chine collé on cream wove paper
DimensionsSheet size: 14 1/4 × 19 3/4 in.
Plate size: 1 7/8 × 8 1/8 in.
SignedSigned in the plate at bottom right: "Otto H. Bacher Venice '80"; also signed in graphite at lower left: "Otto H. Bacher".
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1982.2277
Label TextBacher's etching "Zaltieri" (Zattere) dates from 1880 and features a riva in Venice which got its name from the river barges that arrived there loaded with tree trunks cut from throughout the Veneto. The wood was unloaded along "Le Zattere," and was eventually used for, among other things, the construction of ships, buildings, foundations, channel markers and mooring posts.
