Whistler Etchings

Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate		Freer Gallery of Art (1897.17)
Number:	1
Date:	1854
Medium:	etching
Size:	149 x 253 mm
Signed:	'J.W.' at upper left
Inscribed:	no
Set/Publication:	no
No. of States:	1
Known impressions:	28
Catalogues:	K.1; M.1; T.-
Impressions taken from this plate (28)

Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no.1) 'Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate'.
Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 1) 'Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate'.
Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, 2nd ed., revised, London, 1899, introduction.

An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. nos. 235, 235a) 'Coast Survey'.
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. 400).

Key, John Ross, 'Recollections of Whistler While in the Office of the United States Coast Survey,' The Century Magazine, vol. 75, no. 6, April 1908, pp. 928-32.
Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984, pp. 12-16, 25, 277 (no. 1).
MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 3).
Menpes, Mortimer, Whistler as I Knew Him, London, 1904, pp. 88-89.
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, I, pp. 44-45.
Pressly, Nancy D., 'Whistler in America: An Album of Early Drawings,' Metropolitan Museum Journal, New York, V, 1972, pp. 125-54.
Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, 2nd ed., revised, London, 1899

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