The Little Velvet Dress |  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1943.3.8465) | |
| Number: | 119 | |
| Date: | 1873 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 166 x 122 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 27 | |
| Catalogues: | K.106; M.106; W.92 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (27) | ||
CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS
- Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 106) 'The Little Velvet Dress'.
- Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 106) 'The Little Velvet Dress'.
- Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 92) 'The Little Velvet Dress'.
EXHIBITIONS 1855- 1905
- Probably 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'.
- Etchings and Dry Points, The Union League Club, New York, 1881 (cat. no. 127) 'The Little Velvet Dress'.
- Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 87) 'The Little Velvet Dress'.
- An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. E087) 'The Little Velvet Dress'.
- 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. 75) ' The Little Velvet Dress'.
- Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. nos. 96, 96b) 'The Little Velvet Dress'. 1st & 2nd state.
- 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. 92 ) 'The Little Velvet Dress'.
- Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 331) 'La petite robe de velours. - (The Little Velvet Dress)'.
REVIEWS 1855- 1905
- Anon., 'Art Notes', Liverpool Mercury, 18 March 1893.
GENERAL 1906- PRESENT
- Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984, pp. 161, 162, 279 (no. 111).
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. nos. 419, 420, 454).