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The Riva

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1898.388)
Number: 229
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 202 x 298 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'First Venice Set', 1880
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 55
Catalogues: K.192; M.189; W.157
Impressions taken from this plate  (55)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 192) 'The Riva'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 189) 'The Riva. No. 1'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 157) 'The Riva'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855- 1905

  • Etchings of Venice, The Fine Art Society, London, 1880 (cat. no. 6) 'The Riva'.
  • [Exhibition], Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1881 .
  • Ausstellung der Maler-Radierungen französischer und englischer Künstler der Neuzeit, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1881 (cat. no. 714) 'Motiv aus Venedig'- 'Subject from Venice'.
  • Etchings and Dry Points, The Union League Club, New York, 1881 (cat. nos. 156-167) 'View in Venice'.
  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 30) 'Riva'.
  • 50 Etchings and Drypoints (Venice Second Series), H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1883 (cat. no. 30) 'Riva'.
  • [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. 136) 'The Riva'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. 138) 'The Riva'.
  • Melbourne 1900: Exhibition, Messrs Robertson & Moffatt, Town Hall, Melbourne, 'The Rival'.
  • International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 232) 'The Riva'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 120) 'The Riva'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 131) 'The Riva'.
  • Catalogue of a Collection of Etchings, Dry Points and Lithographs, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 72) 'The Riva'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 159) 'The Riva'.
  • 78th Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1904 (cat. no. 566) 'The Riva'.
  • Etchings, Dry Points, And a few Drawings by Whistler, Frederick Keppel and Co., New York, 1904 (cat. no. 69) 'The Riva, No.1'.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 359) 'La Riva. No.1'.
  • 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. 157) 'The Riva'.
  • Tentoonstelling van Aquarellen, Pastels, Teekingen, Etsen, Lithogaphien en een Schildrij door James McNeill Whistler, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1906 (cat. no. 46) 'The Riva'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Venice', St James' Gazette, 9 December 1880 (GUL PC4/17, PC15/13).
  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's etchings ...', British Architect, 10 December 1880.
  • Anon., [H.Quilter],'Mr. Whistler's Etchings of Venice', The Times, London, 25 December 1880, p. 4 (GUL PC4/11).

GENERAL 1855-1905

  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Piker Papers. The Painter-Etchers' Society and Mr Whistler, London, 1881 .
  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 30).
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890 , p. 99.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Ann Arbor 1996: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1996 (cat. no. 34).
  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000 , pp. 32, 107, 109, 189, fig. 124.
  • Los Angeles 1984: Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 64a).
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , pp. 182, 214, 219, 281 (no. 203).
  • 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. 69, 88, 94, 120, 128, pl. 5.