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Rotherhithe

Impression: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
(1943.3.8442)
Number: 70
Date: 1860
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 278 x 203 mm
Signed: 'Whistler' at lower left
Inscribed: '1860.' at lower left
Set/Publication: 'Thames Set', 1871
No. of States: 6
Known impressions: 118
Catalogues: K.66; M.66; T.41; W.60
Impressions taken from this plate  (118)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 66) 'Rotherhithe'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 66) 'Rotherhithe'.
  • Thomas, Ralph, A Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of James Abbott MacNeil Whistler, London, 1874 (cat. no. 41) 'Rotherhithe'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 60) 'Rotherhithe'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855-1905

  • 94th Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Academy, London, 1862 (cat. no. 923) 'Rotherhithe'.
  • [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. 2758) 'Vue des bords de la Tamise'.
  • [Etchings exhibited at the Artists' and Amateurs' Conversazione], Willis's Rooms, London, 1863 (no catalogue) 'Rotherhithe'.
  • Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 15) 'Rotherhithe'.
  • Collection illustrative of the History and Practice of Etching. Lent and Catalogued by James Anderson Rose, Esq., of London, Liverpool, 1874 (cat. no. 495) 'Rotherhithe'.
  • 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. nos. 83, 84) 'Rotherhithe'.
  • International Exhibition, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, 1888 (cat. nos. 2552-3) 'Rotherhithe'.
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, Chicago, 1893 (cat. no. 2215).
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 57) 'Rotherhithe'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. 55) 'Rotherhithe (Wapping)'.
  • International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 253) 'Rotherhithe'.
  • 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 (59)) 'Rotherhithe'.
  • Art and Industrial Exhibition, Wolverhampton, 1902 (cat. no. 118) 'Rotherhithe'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 66) 'Rotherhithe'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 51) 'Rotherhithe'.
  • 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. nos. 52-53) 'Rotherhithe'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 61) 'Rotherhithe'.
  • 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. 60) 'Rotherhithe'.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 320) 'Rotherhithe'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • Anon., [F.G. Stephens], 'Fine Arts. Royal Academy', The Athenaeum, London, 24 May 1862, p. 699.
  • Anon, 'Mr Whistler's Etchings', The Reader, 4 April 1863.
  • Anon., [F.G. Stephens], The Athenaeum, 26 August 1871, pp. 280-81.
  • Anon., [H. Stewart Cundell], 'English Etching', The Standard, London, 25 April 1878, p. 2 (GUL PC1/94).
  • 'M.B.H.' [M.B. Huish], 'Etching in England', The Magazine of Art, 1878, I, p. 146, II, pp. 217-8.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1996 (cat. no. 16).
  • Chambers, Emma, An indolent and blundering art?, Cambridge, 1999, p. 134.
  • Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 20).
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , pp. 116, 118, 119, 120, 165, 193; 278 (no. 70); map repr. p. 82.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 298).
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908 , vol. 1, p. 96.