UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Drury Lane

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1887.17)
Number: 243
Date: 1880/1881
Medium: etching
Size: 164 x 103 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Second Venice Set', 1886
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 26
Catalogues: K.237; M.234; W.176
Impressions taken from this plate  (26)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 237) 'Drury Lane'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 234) 'Drury Lane'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 176) 'Drury Lane'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855- 1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 31) 'Drury Lane'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 155) 'Drury Lane'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. E156) 'Drury Lane'.
  • International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 211) 'Drury Lane'.
  • 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. no. 153) 'Drury Lane'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 139).
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 178) 'Drury Lane'.
  • 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. 176) 'Drury Lane'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • Anon., Sunday Times, 18 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/22).
  • 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).

GENERAL 1855-1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 31).
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, p. 100.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 29).
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984, pp. 232, 281 (no. 238).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001. p. 120.