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The Balcony

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46852)
Number: 202
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 298 x 203 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Second Venice Set', 1886
No. of States: 19
Known impressions: 56
Catalogues: K.207; M.204; W.177
Impressions taken from this plate  (56)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 207) 'The Balcony'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 204) 'The Balcony'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 177) 'The Balcony'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855-1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 32) 'The Balcony'.
  • 50 Etchings and Drypoints (Venice Second Series), H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1883 (cat. no. 32) 'The Balcony'.
  • International Exhibition, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, 1888 (cat. no. 2552-23) Venice - The Balcony
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, Chicago, 1893 (cat. no. 2232) 'The Balcony'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 156) 'The Balcony'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. 157) 'The Balcony'.
  • International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 224) 'The Balcony'.
  • Art and Industrial Exhibition, Wolverhampton, 1902 (cat. no. 141) 'The Balcony'.
  • 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. 154) 'The Balcony'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. nos. 140a, b) 'The Balcony'.
  • 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. 139) 'The Balcony'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 179) 'The Balcony'.
  • 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. 177) 'The Balcony'.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 373) 'Le Balcon. - (The Balcony)'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Etchings', Building News, 23 February 1883 (GUL PC6/42).
  • Anon., 'An Arrangement in White and Yellow', The Queen, 24 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/24).
  • Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Exhibition', Saturday Review, 24 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/32).
  • 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).
  • 'J.M. Gray sale', The Academy, 17 November 1894, p. 405.

GENERAL 1855-1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 32).
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890 , p. 100.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Getscher, Robert Harold, Whistler and Venice, Ph.D. dissertation, Case Western University, Cleveland, 1970 .
  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000 , pp. 32, 40, 43-44, 94, 192, fig. 24.
  • Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 82a).
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , pp.182, 188-9, 191, 232, 241, 281, (no.202).
  • London 1994: James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995 (cat. no. 103).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 743).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001 , pp. 64-65, 78-79, 120, 122, pl. 75.