UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The Bridge, Santa Marta

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1887.12)
Number: 201
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 298 x 202 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Second Venice Set', 1886
No. of States: 9
Known impressions: 47
Catalogues: K.204; M.201; W.171
Impressions taken from this plate  (47)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 204) 'The Bridge'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 201) 'The Bridge'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 171) 'The Bridge'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855- 1905

  • Etchings of Venice, The Fine Art Society, London, 1880 (cat. no. 7) 'The Bridge'
  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 17) 'The Bridge'.
  • 50 Etchings and Drypoints (Venice Second Series), H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1883 (cat. no. 17) 'The Bridge'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 150) 'The Bridge'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. E151) 'The Bridge'.
  • International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 241) 'The Bridge'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings and Dry Points by Mr. Whistler, Frederick Keppel and Co., New York, 1902.
  • Art and Industrial Exhibition, Wolverhampton, 1902 (cat. no. 142) 'The Bridge'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 148) 'The Bridge'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. nos. 134a, b ) 'The Bridge'.
  • Catalogue of a Collection of Etchings, Dry Points and Lithographs, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 83) 'The Bridge'.
  • Etchings, Dry Points, And a few Drawings by Whistler, Frederick Keppel and Co., New York, 1904 (cat. no. 80) 'The Bridge'.
  • 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. 136) 'The Bridge'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. nos.173a, b ) 'The Bridge'.
  • 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. 171) 'The Bridge'.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 369 ) 'Le Pont' - (The Bridge).

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's etchings ...', British Architect, 10 December 1880.
  • 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 Etchings', Building News, 23 February 1883 (GUL PC6/42).
  • Anon., 'The Studio. An Arrangement in White and Yellow', 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).
  • Anon., 'Fine Art. Mr. Whistler's Exhibition,' Bazaar, 28 February 1883 (GUL PC6/44).

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.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 53-54, 189, 192, fig. 40.
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984, pp. 182, 191-3, 214, 232, 281 (no. 199).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. nos. 753, 1096).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, pp. 44, 88, 120-121, 124, pl.124.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, I, pp. 281-282.