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Bead Stringers

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46837)
Number: 235
Date: 1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 229 x 154 mm
Signed: butterfly at left (8-final)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Second Venice Set', 1886
No. of States: 11
Known impressions: 40
Catalogues: K.198; M.195; W.164
Impressions taken from this plate  (40)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 198) 'Bead-Stringers'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 195) 'Bead-Stringers'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 164) 'Bead-Stringers'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855-1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 5) 'Bead Stringers'.
  • 50 Etchings and Drypoints (Venice Second Series), H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1883 (cat. no. 5) 'Bead Stringers'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 143) 'Bead Stringers'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. 144) 'Bead-Stringers'.
  • International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 226) 'Bead-Stringers'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings and Dry Points by Mr. Whistler, Frederick Keppel and Co., New York, 1902 .
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 140) 'Bead-Stringers'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 127).
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 166) 'Bead-Stringers'.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 364) 'Les enfileuses de perles. - (Bead Stringers)'.
  • 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. 164) 'Bead-Stringers'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • Anon., Sussex Daily News, 21 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/33).
  • Anon., Coventry Standard, 23 February 1883 (GUL PC6/42).
  • Anon., North London Advertiser, 25 February/ 3 March 1883 (GUL PC6/44 ).
  • Anon., 'The Whistler Exhibition', New York Mail and Express, 24 October 1883 (GUL PC3/61, PC4/12).
  • Unidentified press-cutting, '... News', Chicago, 20 October 1889 (GUL PC11/17).

GENERAL 1855-1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 5).
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890 , p. 94.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000 , pp. 132, 192.
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , pp. 182, 191, 232, 260, 281, (no. 223).
  • Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 55a).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 788).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001 , p. 59, 61, 120, 124, pl. 71.
  • Merrill, Linda, With Kindest Regards. The Correspondence of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler, 1890-1903, Washington and London, 1995 , p. 164.
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, 2nd ed., London and New York, 1892 .