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The Embroidered Curtain

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46999)
Number: 451
Date: 1889
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 239 x 161 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 10
Known impressions: 27
Catalogues: K.410; M.411
Impressions taken from this plate  (27)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., Catalogue of Etchings by J. McN. Whistler, Compiled by an Amateur. Supplementary to that Compiled by F. Wedmore, New York, 1902 (cat. no. 356) 'The Embroidered Curtain'.
  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 410) 'The Embroidered Curtain'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 411) 'The Lace Curtain'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855-1905

  • [Exhibition of watercolours, pastels and etchings belonging to C. L. Freer], Grolier Club, New York, 1890.
  • [Exhibition], Dunthorne's Gallery at the Rembrandt Head, London, 1890.
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, Chicago, 1893 (cat. no. 2264) 'The Embroidered Curtain'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 271) 'Embroidered Curtain'.
  • 2nd Exhibition, Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London, 1899 (cat. no. 241) 'The Embroidered Curtain, Amsterdam'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. 292) 'Embroidered Curtain'.
  • Internationale Kunstausstellung, Dresden, 1901.
  • [Exhibition of recently acquired works], Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett, 1902.
  • 71st Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1902 (cat. no. 947 [276]) 'Embroidered Curtain'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 242) 'The Embroidered Curtain'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 236).
  • 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. 195) 'The Embroidered Curtain'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. nos. 289 b, c, d, e) 'The Embroidered Curtain'.
  • 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. 356) 'The Embroidered Curtain'.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 430) 'Le rideau brodé. - (The Embroidered Curtain)'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • Anon., 'A Chat With Mr Whistler', Pall Mall Budget, 13 March 1890 (GUL PC11/21).
  • Anon., St Paul's, London, 27 May 1899 (GUL PC17/61).

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1996 (cat. no. 57).
  • Heijbroek, J. F., 'Holland van het water: de bezoeken van James Abbott McNeill Whistler aan Nederland,' Bulletin Rijksmuseum, 1988, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 225-56.
  • Heijbroek, J. F. and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Holland, Zwolle and Amsterdam, 1997, pp. 64-66, 79, 81, 83-84, 88, 91-92, 110.
  • Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 90).
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984, pp. 249, 250, 284 (no. 413).
  • James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995 (cat. no. 166).
  • Mansfield, Howard, 'Whistler in Belgium and Holland,' The Print-Collector's Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 4, December 1916, pp. 374-395.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, p. 83.