UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Fish Shop, Chelsea

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46623)
Number: 267
Date: 1886
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 141 x 218 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 22
Catalogues: K.264; M.259; W.214
Impressions taken from this plate  (22)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 264) 'The Fish-Shop, Busy Chelsea'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 259) 'The Fish-Shop: Busy Chelsea'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 214) The Fish-Shop, Chelsea'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855-1905

  • Possibly NY-1889b; 'Chelsea Fish Shop'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 186) 'Maunder’s Fish Shop'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. 184) 'The Fish-Shop: “Busy Chelsea”'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 182) 'The Fish-Shop. "Busy Chelsea"'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 172) 'The Fish Shop: “Busy Chelsea”'.
  • 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. 163) 'The Fish Shop: 'Busy Chelsea'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 223) 'The Fish Shop- Busy Chelsea'.
  • 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. 214) ' The Fish Shop'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • None.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Hausberg, Margaret Dunwoody, The Prints of Theodore Roussel: a Catalogue Raisonné, Bronxville, New York, 1991 (cat. no. 25).
  • Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 69).
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984, pp. 224, 225, 260, 282 (no. 261).
  • James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995, p. 50.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, p. 64.
  • Robins, Anna Gruetzner, A Fragile Modernism. Whistler and his Impressionist Followers, Yale University Press, London and New Haven, 2007, pp. 128-129.
  • Spink, Nesta R., The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, gen. eds Harriet K. Stratis and Martha Tedeschi, Chicago, 1998 (cat. no. 37).