UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Turkeys

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46847)
Number: 236
Date: 1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 209 x 135 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left (2)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Second Venice Set', 1886
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 42
Catalogues: K.199; M.196; W.165
Impressions taken from this plate  (42)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 199) 'Turkeys'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 196) 'Turkeys'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 165) 'Turkeys'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855-1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 7) 'Turkeys'.
  • 50 Etchings and Drypoints (Venice Second Series), H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1883 (cat. no. 7) 'Turkeys'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 144) 'Turkeys'.
  • 'Turkeys'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. 145) 'Turkeys'.
  • International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 216) 'The Turkeys'.
  • 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. nos. 141, 142) 'Turkeys'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 128).
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 165) 'Turkeys'.
  • 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. 165) 'Turkeys'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Exhibition', Saturday Review, 24 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/32).
  • Anon., Athenaeum, 24 February 1883 (GUL PC25/25).
  • Anon., 'Whistler's Arrangement'. Etchings on Exhibition in New York in a "Yellow-and-White" Setting', Boston Evening Transcript, 12 October 1883 (GUL PC4/16).
  • Anon., 'The Whistler Exhibition', New York Mail and Express, 24 October 1883 (GUL PC3/61, PC4/12).

GENERAL 1855-1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 7).
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, p. 94.
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, 2nd ed., London and New York, 1892, p. 94.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Getscher, Robert Harold, Whistler and Venice, Ph.D. dissertation, Case Western University, Cleveland, 1970.
  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 128, 131, 192, fig. 158.
  • Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 47).
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984, pp. 232, 281 (no. 227).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 73, 120-122, repr. pl. 123.