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Old Hungerford Bridge

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46760)
Number: 76
Date: 1861
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 140 x 215 mm
Signed: 'Whistler.' at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Thames Set', 1871
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 65
Catalogues: K.76; M.76; T.37; W.80
Impressions taken from this plate  (65)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 76) 'Old Hungerford Bridge'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 76) 'Old Hungerford Bridge'.
  • Thomas, Ralph, A Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of James Abbott MacNeil Whistler, London, 1874 (cat. no. 37) 'Hungerford Bridge'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 80) 'Old Hungerford Bridge'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855-1905

  • [Exposition], Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1862 .
  • 95th Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Academy, London, 1863 (cat. no. 969) 'Hungerford Bridge'.
  • Collection illustrative of the History and Practice of Etching. Lent and Catalogued by James Anderson Rose, Esq., of London, Liverpool, 1874 (cat. no. 491) 'Old Hungerford Bridge'.
  • Welt-Ausstellung, Vienna, 1873 (cat. no. 177) 'Sechs Radierungen'.
  • Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 19) 'Old Hungerford Bridge'.
  • [Exhibition], Craibe Angus's Gallery, Glasgow, 1879 .
  • Exhibition of works loaned to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1879 .
  • Etchings and Dry Points, The Union League Club, New York, 1881 (cat. no. 109) 'Old Hungerford Bridge'.
  • Newcastle 1889: Royal Mining, Engineering, and Industrial Exhibition (International and Colonial), Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1889 (cat. no. 986) 'Hungerford Bridge'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 75) 'Old Hungerford Bridge'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. 75) 'Old Hungerford Bridge'.
  • Art and Industrial Exhibition, Wolverhampton, 1902 (cat. no. 121) 'Old Hungerford Bridge'.
  • 71st Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1902 (cat. no. 947 (80)).
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 81) 'Old Hungerford Bridge'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 66) 'Old Hungerford Bridge'.
  • 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. 64) 'Old Hungerford Bridge'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 83) 'Old Hungerford Bridge'.
  • 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. 80) 'Old Hungerford Bridge'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • [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.
  • 'Mr Whistler's Paintings', Baltimore Gazette, after 1 April 1876, in GUL PC1/75; partially quoting E.D. Wallace, 'The Fine Arts Abroad', Forney's Weekly Press, Philadelphia, 1 April 1876.
  • Anon., 'English Etching', 25 April 1878, unidentified press-cutting (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

  • Chambers, Emma, An indolent and blundering art?, Cambridge, 1999, p. 145.
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , pp. 121, 123, 279 (no. 78).