Piazza Vigliena, Palermo
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Description:
Black ink etching on paper depicting the busy Baroque square officially known as Piazza Vigliena. Hale focused on the east side of the Baroque building representing the winter season and the border street. The statues of one of the four Spanish kings of Sicily, King Philip III and the Palermo patron, Saint Agata are visible on the third and fourth floor niches.
See AZ 173 for Gabrielle De Veaux Clements' depiction of the same scene.
Gift of the artist.
- Title: Piazza Vigliena, Palermo
- Creator: Hale, Ellen Day, 1855-1940
- Date: 1922
- Signature: Ellen Day Hale
- Signature Location: lower right in graphite
- Culture: American
- School: Post-Impressionism
- Dimensions: H-8.5 W-6.5 inches
- Makers Mark: lower left etched in plate: "E.D. Hale"
- Collection: Works on Paper Collection
- Object Name: Etchings
- Other Name: Work on Paper
- Object Id: AZ 184
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