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The Beggars

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1938.1862)
Number: 190
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 307 x 212 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left (1-3); replaced with new butterfly (4); redrawn (5-6); removed (8)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'First Venice Set', 1880
No. of States: 17
Known impressions: 57
Catalogues: K.194; M.191; W.159
Impressions taken from this plate  (57)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 194) 'The Beggars'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 191) 'The Beggars'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 159) 'The Beggars'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855-1905

  • Etchings of Venice, The Fine Art Society, London, 1880 (cat. no. 3) 'The Beggars'.
  • Ausstellung der Maler-Radierungen französischer und englischer Künstler der Neuzeit, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1881 (cat. no. 709) 'Die Bettler'.
  • [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 of Venice'.
  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 50) 'The Beggars'.
  • 50 Etchings and Drypoints (Venice Second Series), H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1883 (cat. no. 50) 'The Beggars'.
  • [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 (cat. no. 1669) 'Les Mendiants - Venise'.
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, Chicago, 1893 (cat. no. 2245).
  • 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. 138) 'The Beggars'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. 140) 'The Beggars'.
  • International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 236) 'The Beggars'.
  • Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901 (cat. no. 1379).
  • 71st Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1902 (cat. no. 947 (159)) 'The Beggars'.
  • Art and Industrial Exhibition, Wolverhampton, 1902 (cat. no. 129).
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 133) 'The Beggars'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 122).
  • 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. 127) 'The Beggars'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 161) 'The Beggars'.
  • 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. 159) 'The Beggars'.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 361) 'Les mendiants. (The Beggars)'.

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., [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., 'Mr Whistler's Exhibition', Saturday Review, 24 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/32).
  • Anon., 'Fine Arts', Glasgow Herald, 21 December 1892.
  • Anon., 'Art Notes', Liverpool Mercury, 18 March 1893.

GENERAL 1855-1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 50).
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890 , p. 104.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Bacher, Otto Henry, With Whistler in Venice, 2nd ed., New York, 1908 , p. 121.
  • 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. 36-37, 39, 59, 128, 131, 189, 192, fig.16.
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , pp. 191, 241, 266, 280 (no. 192).
  • Los Angeles 1984: Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 27).
  • M. F. MacDonald, Whistler in Venice, exh. cat., Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, 1971 (cat. no. 84).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 727).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001 . pp. 20, 22-23, 39, 68, 79, 84, 88, 91, 98, 128-132, 139, pl. 22, 104.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908 , I, pp. 282, 284; II, 84.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912 , p. 46.
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. nos. 727, 836, 837, 864).
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890 , pp. 92-93 (cat. no. 50).