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Long Venice

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1898.400)
Number: 211
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 128 x 311 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Second Venice Set', 1886
No. of States: 8
Known impressions: 37
Catalogues: K.212; M.209; W.182
Impressions taken from this plate  (37)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 209) 'Long Venice'.
  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 212) 'Long Venice'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 182) 'Long Venice'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855-1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 42) 'Long Venice'.
  • 50 Etchings and Drypoints (Venice Second Series), H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1883 (cat. no. 42) 'Long Venice'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 161) 'Long Venice'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. 162) 'Long Venice'.
  • International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 237) 'Long Venice'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings and Dry Points by Mr. Whistler, Frederick Keppel and Co., New York, 1902.
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 159) 'Long Venice'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 145).
  • 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. 143) 'Long Venice'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 184) 'Long Venice'.
  • 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. 182) 'Long Venice'.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 375). 'Le longue Venise. - (Long Venice)'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Etchings', Globe, 19 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/19).
  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler', Whitehall Review, 22 February 1883 (GUL PC25/35).
  • Anon., Mr. Whistler's Exhibition,' Saturday Review, 24 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/32).
  • Anon., 'Fine Art. Mr. Whistler's Exhibition,' Bazaar, 28 February 1883 (GUL PC6/44).
  • John Forbes-Robertson, 'Mr. Whistler, His Arrangement in White and Yellow, His Etchings and His Catalogue', Pictorial World, 31 March 1883 (GUL PC 8/8).

GENERAL 1855-1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 42).
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, p. 102.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1996 (cat. no. 46).
  • Getscher, Robert Harold, Whistler and Venice, Ph.D. dissertation, Case Western University, Cleveland, 1970.
  • Getscher, Robert H., and Paul G. Marks, James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. Two Annotated Bibliographies, New York and London, 1986.
  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 158-159, 192, fig. 199-200.
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984, pp. 190, 194, 232, 280 (no. 186).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. nos. 725, 1096).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001. pp. 66-67, 120, pl. 76.