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The Palaces

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1942.576)
Number: 223
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching, drypoint and open bite
Size: 252 x 358 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left (4-5); removed (6)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'First Venice Set', 1880
No. of States: 6
Known impressions: 56
Catalogues: K.187; M.184; W.153
Impressions taken from this plate  (56)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 187) 'The Little Lagoon'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 184) 'The Palaces'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 153) 'The Palaces'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855- 1905

  • Etchings of Venice, The Fine Art Society, London, 1880 (cat. no. 9) 'The Palaces'.
  • [Exhibition], Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1881 .
  • Etchings and Dry Points, The Union League Club, New York, 1881 (cat. nos. 156-167) 'View in Venice'.
  • Ausstellung der Maler-Radierungen französischer und englischer Künstler der Neuzeit, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1881 (cat. no. 719) 'Paläste am Canale Grande'.
  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 48) 'Palaces'.
  • 50 Etchings and Drypoints (Venice Second Series), H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1883 (cat. no. 48) 'Palaces'.
  • International Exhibition, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, 1888 (cat. no. 2552-13) 'Venice--The Palaces'.
  • [Exhibition of the First Venice Set], The Fine Art Society, London, 1892 (no catalogue).
  • 2nd Exhibition, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Champs de Mars, Paris, 1892 (Gravure cat. no. 1666) 'Les Palais – Venise'.
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, Chicago, 1893 (cat. no. 2240 [1659] ) 'The Palaces (Venice)'.
  • Mr Whistler's Venice Etchings and the Defaced Coppers, Robert Dunthorne's Gallery, Liverpool, 1893 .
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 132) 'The Places'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. E134) 'The Palaces'.
  • Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901 (cat. no. 1388).
  • International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 222) 'The Palaces'.
  • Art and Industrial Exhibition, Wolverhampton, 1902 (cat. no. 136) 'The Palaces'.
  • 71st Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1902 (cat. no. 153) 'The Palaces'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 116) 'The Palaces'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 127) 'The Palaces'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. nos. 154a, b) 'The Palaces'.
  • 78th Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1904 (cat. no. 562) 'The Palaces'.
  • 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. 120) 'The Palaces'.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 355) 'Les Palais. - (The Palaces)'.
  • 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. 153) 'The Palaces'.
  • Tentoonstelling van Aquarellen, Pastels, Teekingen, Etsen, Lithogaphien en een Schildrij door James McNeill Whistler, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1906 (cat. no. 38) 'The Palaces'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Venice Etchings', Daily News, London, 2 December 1880 (GUL PC4/15, 15/11).
  • Anon., 'Mr.Whistler's Etchings', The Globe, 3 December 1880 (GUL PC4/15, 15/11).
  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's etchings ...', British Architect, XIV, 10 December 1880 (GUL PC4/19, PC6/18).
  • Anon. [H.Quilter], 'Mr.Whistler's "Venice" at the Fine-Art Society, New Bond Street', Spectator, vol. 53, no. 2737, 11 December 1880, pp. 1586-7 (GUL PC4, pp. 13, 82).
  • Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Etchings of Venice', The Times , London, 25 December 1880, p. 4.
  • Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Etchings', Building News, 23 February 1883 (GUL PC6/42).
  • Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Exhibition', Saturday Review, London, 24 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/32).
  • Anon., 'Art Notes', Liverpool Mercury, 18 March 1893.

GENERAL 1855-1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 48).
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890 , p. 103.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Ann Arbor 1996: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1996 (cat. no. 38).
  • 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. 64-65, 185, 189, fig. 56.
  • Hausberg, Margaret D., 'Whistler Etchings: New Observations' , Print Quarterly, 24, 2007, pp. 11-21.
  • Los Angeles 1984: Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 54).
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , pp. 214, 280 (no. 184).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. nos. 836-7).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001 . pp. 68-69, 84, 88, 94, 120, 129, 130, pl. 78.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908 , I, p. 265.