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The 'Adam and Eve', Old Chelsea

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1954.45)
Number: 182
Date: 1878
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 175 x 302 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left (3)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: Hogarth and Son, 1879.
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 92
Catalogues: K.175; M.172; W.144
Impressions taken from this plate  (92)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 175) 'The "Adam and Eve," Old Chelsea'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 172) 'The "Adam and Eve," Old Chelsea'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 144) 'The "Adam and Eve," Old Chelsea'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855-1905

  • [?] Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1879 (cat. no. 286) 'The Adam and Eve, Old Chelsea'.
  • Etchings and Dry Points, The Union League Club, New York, 1881 (cat. no. 154) 'The “Adam and Eve” – Old Chelsea'.
  • Artists' Sping Exhibition, Leeds, 1894 (cat. no. 852) 'The Adam and Eve'.
  • Artists' Sping Exhibition, Leeds, 1895 (cat. no. 928) 'The Adam and Eve'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 123) 'The “Adam and Eve”, Old Chelsea'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. 126) 'The “Adam and Eve”, Old Chelsea'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 117) 'The "Adam and Eve", Old Chelsea'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 107).
  • Etchings, Dry Points, And a few Drawings by Whistler, Frederick Keppel and Co., New York, 1904 (cat. no. 68) 'The "Adam and Eve" Tavern, Old Chelsea'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 145) 'The “Adam and Eve”, Old Chelsea'.
  • 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. 110) 'The “Adam and Eve”, Old Chelsea'.
  • 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. 144) 'The “Adam and Eve”, Old Chelsea'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • None.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 25).
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , pp. 177, 178, 223, 280, pl. 214 (no. 176).
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908 , I, pp. 215, 280.