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The Piazzetta

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46802)
Number: 218
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 257 x 182 mm
Signed: two butterflies at lower left (1); replaced with new butterfly (2-final)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'First Venice Set', 1880
No. of States: 9
Known impressions: 51
Catalogues: K.189; M.186; W.155
Impressions taken from this plate  (51)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉ

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 189) 'The Piazzetta'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 186) 'The Piazetta'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 155) 'The Piazetta'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855-1905

  • Etchings of Venice, The Fine Art Society, London, 1880 (cat. no. 12) 'The Piazzetta'.
  • Ausstellung der Maler-Radierungen französischer und englischer Künstler der Neuzeit, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1881 (cat. no. 706).
  • [Exhibition], Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1881 .
  • Etchings and Dry Points, The Union League Club, New York, 1881 (cat. nos. 156-167). 'Views in Venice.'
  • Possibly New York Etching Club, National Academy of Design, New York, 1882 'St Mark's Place, Venice.'
  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 45) 'The Piazetta'.
  • 50 Etchings and Drypoints (Venice Second Series), H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1883 (cat. no. 45) 'The Piazetta'.
  • [Exhibition of the First Venice Set], The Fine Art Society, London, 1892 (no catalogue).
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 134) 'The Piazzetta'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. 136).
  • International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 233).
  • Art and Industrial Exhibition, Wolverhampton, 1902 (cat. no. 127) 'The Piazzetta'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 129) 'The Piazetta'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 118) 'The Piazzetta'.
  • 78th Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1904 (cat. no. 558) 'The Piazzetta'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 156) 'The Piazzetta'.
  • 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. 155) 'The Piazzetta'.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 357) 'La Piazzetta'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Venetian Etchings', unidentified press-cutting, December 1880 (GUL PC 4/15).
  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's etchings ...', British Architect, XIV, 10 December 1880 (GUL PC4/19, PC6/18).

GENERAL 1855-1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 45).
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890 , p. 102.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Bell, Lynne, Fact and Fiction: James McNeill Whistler's Critical Reputation in England, 1880-1892, Norwich, University of East Anglia, 1987 .
  • Getscher, Robert H., and Paul G. Marks, James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. Two Annotated Bibliographies, New York and London, 1986 .
  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000 , pp. 166-167, 183, 185, 189, fig. 215.
  • Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 55).
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , pp. 214, 281 (no. 211).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 836).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001 . pp. 68, 87-88, 91, 114, 120, 128, pl. 100.