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The Barber's Shop, Chelsea

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1905.338)
Number: 263
Date: 1886
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 166 x 242 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 11
Catalogues: K.271; M.268; W.229
Impressions taken from this plate  (11)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 271) 'The Barber’s Shop, Chelsea'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 268) 'The Barber's Shop'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, 2nd ed., revised, London, 1899 (cat. no. 229) 'The Barber's'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855- 1906

  • Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1889 (cat. no. 419) 'The Barber's Shop, Chelsea'.
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, Chicago, 1893 (cat. no. 2260) 'The Barber’s Shop, Chelsea'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 183) 'Barber Shop, Chelsea'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. nos. 199, 199a) 'The Barber’s'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. 199) 'The Barber’s'.
  • Internationale Kunstausstellung, Dresden, 1901 .
  • [Exhibition of recently acquired works], Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett, 1902 .
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 189) 'The Barber's'.
  • 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. 170) 'The Barber's'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 242) The Barbers'.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 388) 'La boutique du barbier. - (The Barber's Shop)'.
  • 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. 229) 'The Barber's'.
  • Tentoonstelling van Aquarellen, Pastels, Teekingen, Etsen, Lithogaphien en een Schildrij door James McNeill Whistler, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1906 (cat. no. 61) 'The Barbers Shop, Chelsea'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • None.

GENERAL 1905- PRESENT

  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , p. 282 (no. 272).