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Traghetto

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1927.5960)
Number: 231
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 240 x 311 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left (1-2); replaced with new butterfly (3-final)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 7
Catalogues: K.190; M.187
Impressions taken from this plate  (7)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., Catalogue of Etchings by J. McN. Whistler, Compiled by an Amateur. Supplementary to that Compiled by F. Wedmore, New York, 1902 (cat. no. 368) 'The Traghetto'.
  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 190) 'The Traghetto, No. 1'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 187) 'The Traghetto, No. 1'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855- 1905

  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. 137) 'The Traghetto'.
  • International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 242) 'The Traghetto'.
  • Catalogue of a Collection of Etchings, Dry Points and Lithographs, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 71) 'The Traghetto'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 157) 'The Traghetto'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • None.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Ann Arbor 1996: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1996 (cat. no. 36).
  • Bacher, Otto Henry, With Whistler in Venice, 2nd ed., New York, 1908 , pp. 165-166, 169-172, 174-175, 177-180, 182, 183.
  • 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. 83-84, 189.
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , pp. 214, 280 (no. 188).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001 . pp. 62, 70, 79, 83, 128.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908 , pp. 284-285.