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The Traghetto, No. 2

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46810)
Number: 233
Date: 1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 243 x 307 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left (1-3); replaced with a butterfly further up (4-final)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'First Venice Set', 1880
No. of States: 9
Known impressions: 60
Catalogues: K.191; M.188; W.156
Impressions taken from this plate  (60)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 191), 'The Traghetto, No. 2'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 188), 'The Traghetto, No. 2'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 156), 'The Traghetto'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855- 1905

  • Etchings of Venice, The Fine Art Society, London, 1880 (cat. no. 11) 'The Traghetto'.
  • [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. 718) 'Der Thorweg'. The inventory books in Berlin show that the titles of the etchings were sometimes confused.
  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 37) 'Traghetto'.
  • 50 Etchings and Drypoints (Venice Second Series), H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1883 (cat. no. 37) 'Traghetto'.
  • [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 .
  • Mr Whistler's Venice Etchings and the Defaced Coppers, Robert Dunthorne's Gallery, Liverpool, 1893 (cat. nos. 1-3) 'The Traghetto'.
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, Chicago, 1893 (cat. no. 2238) 'The Traghetto'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 135) 'The Traghetto'.
  • 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'.
  • Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901 (cat. no. 1378) 'The Traghetto'.
  • 71st Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1902 (cat. no. 947) 'The Traghetto'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. nos. 119a, b) 'The Traghetto'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 130) 'The Traghetto'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 158) 'The Traghetto'.
  • Etchings, Dry Points, And a few Drawings by Whistler, Frederick Keppel and Co., New York, 1904 (cat. no. 68) 'The Traghetto'.
  • 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. 124) 'The Traghetto'.
  • 78th Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1904 (cat. no. 560) 'The Traghetto'.
  • 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. 156) 'The Traghetto'.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 358) 'Le Traghetto'.
  • 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. 368) 'Second Traghetto'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • 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 Etchings of Venice', The Times, London, 25 December 1880, p. 4 (GUL PC4/11).
  • Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Etchings', Daily News, London, 20 February 1883 (GUL PC25/20).
  • Anon., Athenaeum, 24 February 1883 (GUL PC25/25).
  • Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Exhibition', Saturday Review, 24 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/32).
  • Anon., 'Fine Art. Mr. Whistler's Exhibition,' Bazaar, 28 February 1883 (GUL PC6/44).
  • Anon., 'Art Notes', Liverpool Mercury, 18 March 1893.

GENERAL 1855-1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 37).
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890 , p. 101.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Ann Arbor 1996: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1996 (cat. no. 37).
  • Bacher, Otto Henry, With Whistler in Venice, 2nd ed., New York, 1908 , pp. 165-166, 169-172, 174-175, 177-180, 182, 183.
  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000 , pp. 83-84, 189, fig. 91.
  • Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 49).
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , p. 280 (no. 187).
  • 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. 79, 85, 88, 92, 95, 116, 131, pl. 99.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908 , vol. I, pp. 280-285.
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, 2nd ed., London and New York, 1892 .
  • Wilder, F. L., 'Two Unrecorded Trial Proofs of Whistler Etchings,' The Bookman's Journal and Print Collector, vol. 5, no. 5, February 1922, new series, pp. 161-163 .