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Upright Venice

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46851)
Number: 232
Date: 1879-1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 255 x 180 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left (3-final)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Second Venice Set', 1886
No. of States: 7
Known impressions: 39
Catalogues: K.205; M.202; W.172
Impressions taken from this plate  (39)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 205) 'Upright Venice'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 202) 'Upright Venice'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 172) 'Upright Venice'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855- 1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 19) 'Upright Venice'.
  • 50 Etchings and Drypoints (Venice Second Series), H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1883 (cat. no. 19) 'Upright Venice'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 151) 'Uprigtht Venice.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. E152) 'Upright Venice'.
  • International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 227) 'Upright Venice'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings and Dry Points by Mr. Whistler, Frederick Keppel and Co., New York, 1902.
  • Art and Industrial Exhibition, Wolverhampton, 1902 (cat. no. 140) 'Upright Venice'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. nos. 135a, b) 'Upright Venice'.
  • Catalogue of a Collection of Etchings, Dry Points and Lithographs, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 84) 'Upright Venice'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 149) 'Upright Venice'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. nos. 174a, b) 'Upright Venice'.
  • 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. 137) 'Upright Venice'.
  • Etchings, Dry Points, And a few Drawings by Whistler, Frederick Keppel and Co., New York, 1904 (cat. nos. 81a, b) 'Upright Venice'.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 370) 'Venise. Planche en hauteur'. - '(Upright Venice)'.
  • 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. 172) 'Upright Venice'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler', Whitehall Review, 22 February 1883 (GUL PC25/35).
  • Anon., Athenaeum, 24 February 1883 (GUL PC25/25).
  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Exhibition', Saturday Review, 24 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/32).
  • Anon., 'Fine Art. Mr. Whistler's Exhibition,' Bazaar, 28 February 1883 (GUL PC6/44).
  • John Forbes-Robertson, 'Mr. Whistler, His Arrangement in White and Yellow, His Etchings and His Catalogue', Pictorial World, 31 March 1883 (GUL PC 8/8).
  • Anon., 'The Fine Arts. An Exhibition of Mr.Whistler's Etchings.', The Critic, 26 November 1883 (GUL PC4/14).

GENERAL 1855-1906

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 19).
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, p. 97.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Ann Arbor 1996: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1996 (cat. no. 45).
  • Bacher, Otto Henry, With Whistler in Venice, 2nd ed., New York, 1908, p. 270.
  • Getscher, Robert Harold, Whistler and Venice, Ph.D. dissertation, Case Western University, Cleveland, 1970, p. 40.
  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 112-117, 192, repr. fig.132, site in figs. 134, 136.
  • Los Angeles 1984: Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 53).
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984, pp. 190, 194, 233, 281 (no. 212).
  • London 1994: exh. cat., James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995 (cat. no.115).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 836).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001. pp. 69, 79, 80-81, 88, 120, 122, pl. 92, 93.