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The Little Lagoon

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46798)
Number: 216
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 226 x 152 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'First Venice Set', 1880
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 58
Catalogues: K.186; M.183; W.152
Impressions taken from this plate  (58)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 186) 'The Little Lagoon'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 183) 'The Little Lagoon'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 152) 'The Little Lagoon'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855- 1905

  • Etchings of Venice, The Fine Art Society, London, 1880 (cat. no. 8) 'The Little Lagoon'.
  • Ausstellung der Maler-Radierungen französischer und englischer Künstler der Neuzeit, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1881 (cat. no. 711) ' Die kleine Lagune'.
  • [Exhibition], Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1881.
  • Etchings and Dry Points, The Union League Club, New York, 1881 (cat. no. 156-167) 'View in Venice'.
  • Possibly 'A Lagoon, Venice.'
  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 26) 'The Little Lagoon'.
  • 50 Etchings and Drypoints (Venice Second Series), H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1883 (cat. no. 26) 'The Little Lagoon'.
  • [Exhibition of the First Venice Set], The Fine Art Society, London, 1892 (no catalogue).
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 131) 'The Little Lagoon'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. 133) 'The Little Lagoon'.
  • International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 215) 'The Little Lagoon'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 115b) 'The Little Lagoon'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 115a) 'The Little Lagoon'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 126) 'The Little Lagoon'.
  • 78th Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1904 (cat. no. 564) 'The Little Lagoon'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 153) 'The Little Lagoon'.
  • 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. 119) 'The Little Lagoon'.
  • 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. 152) 'The Little Lagoon'.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 354) 'La petit lagune - (The Little Lagoon)'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Venice Etchings', Daily News, London, 2 December 1880.
  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Venice', St James' Gazette, 9 December 1880 (GUL PC4/17, PC15/13).
  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's etchings ...', British Architect, XIV, 10 December 1880 (GUL PC4/19, PC6/18).
  • Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Etchings', Building News, 23 February 1883 (GUL PC6/42).
  • Anon., The Queen, 24 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/24).
  • Anon., 'The Fine Art Society, New Bond Street', [unidentified 'Daily'], 24 February 1883 (GUL PC6/42).

GENERAL 1855-1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 26).
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, p. 99.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 123-124, 189, fig.149.
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984, pp. 194, 214, 281 (no. 221).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. nos. 836-7).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001. pp. 88-89, 91, 97, 115, 128, 130, pl.101.