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The Velvet Dress (Mrs Leyland)

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46774)
Number: 120
Date: 1873/1874
Medium: drypoint
Size: 232 x 157 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 7
Known impressions: 17
Catalogues: K.105; M.105; T.76; W.91
Impressions taken from this plate  (17)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 105) 'The Velvet Dress'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 105) 'The Velvet Dress'.
  • Thomas, Ralph, A Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of James Abbott MacNeil Whistler, London, 1874 (cat. no. 76) 'The Velvet Dress'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 91) 'The Velvet Dress'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855- 1905

  • Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. nos. 6, 22, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 33, 35, 36 or 50) 'Dry Point, Portrait'.
  • Collection illustrative of the History and Practice of Etching. Lent and Catalogued by James Anderson Rose, Esq., of London, Liverpool, 1874 (cat. no. 479) 'Portrait of a Lady'.
  • Etchings and Dry Points, The Union League Club, New York, 1881 (cat. no. 123) 'The Velvet Dress (Mrs. Leyland)'. Trial proof, 1873.
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 86) 'The Velvet Dress'. First State.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. nos. E86, 86b) 'The Velvet Dress'.
  • Art and Industrial Exhibition, Wolverhampton, 1902 (cat. no. 119) 'The Velvet Dress'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 89) 'The Velvet Dress'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. nos. 74a, b) 1st and 2nd State.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. nos. 95, 95b, 95c) 'The Velvet Dress'. 1st, 2nd and 3rd states.
  • 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. nos. 72, 73, 74) ' The Velvet Dress'. 1st, 2nd and 3rd states.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 330) 'La robe de velours. - (The Velv[et] Dress)'.
  • 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. 91) 'The Velvet Dress'.
  • Tentoonstelling van Aquarellen, Pastels, Teekingen, Etsen, Lithogaphien en een Schildrij door James McNeill Whistler, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1906 (cat. no. 75) 'The Velvet Dress'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • None.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 33).
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , pp. 160, 162, 279 (no. 110).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro and P. de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003 , pp. 101, 136, 138, 217.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908 , vol. 1, p. 177.
  • James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995 (cat. no. 73).