UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Black Lion Wharf

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1898.271)
Number: 54
Date: 1859
Medium: etching
Size: 153 x 229 mm
Signed: 'Whistler' at lower right
Inscribed: '1859.' at lower right
Set/Publication: 'Thames Set', 1871
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 104
Catalogues: K.42; M.41; T.35; W.40
Impressions taken from this plate  (104)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 42) 'Black Lion Wharf'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 41) 'Black-Lion Wharf'.
  • Thomas, Ralph, A Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of James Abbott MacNeil Whistler, London, 1874 (cat. no. 35) 'Blac Lion Wharf'. [sic]
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 40) 'Black Lion Wharf'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855-1905

  • 92nd Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Academy, London, 1860 (cat. no. 902) 'Thames – Black Lion Wharf'.
  • The Works of James Whistler - Etchings and Dry Points, E. Thomas, 39 Old Bond Street, London, 1861 (cat. no. unknown).
  • International Exhibition, London, 1862 'Black Lion Wharf'.
  • [Exposition], Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1862.
  • Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 10) 'Black Lion Wharf'.
  • Collection illustrative of the History and Practice of Etching. Lent and Catalogued by James Anderson Rose, Esq., of London, Liverpool, 1874 (cat. no. 499) 'Black Lion Wharf'.
  • Exhibition of works loaned to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1879.
  • [Exhibition], Craibe Angus's Gallery, Glasgow, 1879.
  • Etchings and Dry Points, The Union League Club, New York, 1881 (cat. no. 58, 59) 'Black Lion Wharf'.
  • Ausstellung der Maler-Radierungen französischer und englischer Künstler der Neuzeit, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1881 (cat. no. 705) 'Black Lion Wharf'.
  • International Exhibition, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, 1888 (cat. no. 2552-29) 'Black Lion Wharf'
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, Chicago, 1893 (cat. no. 2217).
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 37) 'Black Lion Wharf'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. 38) 'Black Lion Wharf'.
  • Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901 (cat. no. 1396).
  • Exhibition of Etchings and Dry Points by Mr. Whistler, Frederick Keppel and Co., New York, 1902.
  • 71st Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1902 (cat. no. 947 (257)) 'Black Lion Wharf'.
  • Art and Industrial Exhibition, Wolverhampton, 1902 (cat. no. 115) 'Black Lion Wharf'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 47) 'Black Lion Wharf'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 34).
  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Copley Hall, Boston, February 1904 (cat. no. 34) 'Black Lion Wharf'.
  • Etchings, Dry Points, And a few Drawings by Whistler, Frederick Keppel and Co., New York, 1904 (cat. no. 37).
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 42) 'Black Lion Wharf'.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 310) 'Black Lion Wharf'.
  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 40) 'Black Lion Wharf'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • [F.G. Stephens], 'The Royal Academy', The Athenaeum, 19 May 1860, p. 685.
  • 'A Whistler for Whistler', Punch, 17 June 1871.
  • [F.G. Stephens], The Athenaeum, 26 August 1871, pp. 280-81.
  • Anon., 'Two Sets of Etchings', Pall Mall Gazette, 1 January 1872, p. 11.
  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Venice', St James' Gazette, 9 December 1880 (GUL PC4/17, PC15/13).

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Chambers, Emma, An indolent and blundering art?, Cambridge, 1999, pp. 135, 137-8, 141-143.
  • Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 18).
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984, pp. 81-83, 87, 89, 92, 95-96, 170, 224, 278 (no. 45).
  • London 1994: James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995 (cat. no. 32).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., (ed.) Whistler's Mother: An American Icon, Aldershot and Burlington, 2003.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, I, pp. 91-92.