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The Pool |  Freer Gallery of Art (1888.34) | |
| Number: | 49 | |
| Date: | 1859 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 140 x 217 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | '1859.' at lower left | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Thames Set', 1871 | |
| No. of States: | 6 | |
| Known impressions: | 85 | |
| Catalogues: | K.43; M.42; T.47; W.41 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (85) | ||
CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS
- Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 43) 'The Pool'.
- Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 42) 'The Pool'.
- Thomas, Ralph, A Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of James Abbott MacNeil Whistler, London, 1874 (cat. no. 47) 'The Pool'.
- Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 41) 'The Pool'.
EXHIBITIONS 1855-1905
- The Works of James Whistler - Etchings and Dry Points, E. Thomas, 39 Old Bond Street, London, 1861 .
- [Exposition], Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1862 .
- 81st exhibition, Ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants, Palais des Champs Elysées, Paris, 1863 (cat.no. 2757).
- 95th Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Academy, London, 1863 (cat. no. 1003) 'Drypoint – the Pool'.
- 81st exhibition, Ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants, Palais des Champs Elysées, Paris, 1863 (cat. no. 2757) 'Vue des bords de la Tamise'.
- Collection illustrative of the History and Practice of Etching. Lent and Catalogued by James Anderson Rose, Esq., of London, Liverpool, 1874 (cat. no. 490) 'Thames Warehouses'.
- Exhibition of works loaned to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1879 .
- [Exhibition], Craibe Angus's Gallery, Glasgow, 1879 .
- Etchings and Dry Points, The Union League Club, New York, 1881 (cat. no. 60) 'The Pool'.
- International Exhibition, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, 1888 (cat. no. 2552) 'The Pool'.
- 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1889 .
- Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 38) 'The Pool'.
- An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. 39) 'The Pool'.
- Exhibition of Etchings and Dry Points by Mr. Whistler, Frederick Keppel and Co., New York, 1902 .
- 71st Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1902 (cat. no. 947 (41)) 'The Pool'.
- Art and Industrial Exhibition, Wolverhampton, 1902 (cat. no. 120) 'The Pool'.
- Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. nos. 48, 49) 'The Pool'.
- A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 35).
- 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. 35) 'The Pool'.
- Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 43) 'The Pool'.
- Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 311) 'The Pool'.
- 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. 41) 'The Pool'.
REVIEWS 1855- 1905
- [F.G. Stephens], The Athenaeum, 16 May 1863, p. 655.
- [F.G. Stephens], 'The Royal Academy', Athenaeum, No. 1856, 23 May 1863, p. 688 (in GUL PC1/17).
- P. Burty, 'Salon Gravure', Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1863, 1 series, vol. 15, pp. 147-160.
- [F.G. Stephens], The Athenaeum, 26 August 1871, pp. 280-81.
- Anon., 'Two Sets of Etchings', The Pall Mall Gazette, (London), 1 January 1872, Issue 2147, p. 11.
- 'M.B.H.' [M.B. Huish], 'Etching in England', The Magazine of Art, 1878, I, p. 146, II, pp. 217-8.
- Anon., 'The Whistler Exhibition', New York Tribune, 13 March 1889 (GUL PC10/86).
- Anon., Manchester Examiner, 2 May 1889 (GUL PC10/92)
GENERAL 1906- PRESENT
- Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1996 (cat. no. 13).
- Chambers, Emma, An indolent and blundering art?, Cambridge, 1999, pp. 135-136, 138-9, 141, 143, 148.
- Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , pp. 81-82, 87, 89, 94-96, 174, 278 (no. 46).
- Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908 , I, pp. 101-2.