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Nocturne: Palaces

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46849)
Number: 200
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 298 x 202 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left (12)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Second Venice Set', 1886
No. of States: 12
Known impressions: 54
Catalogues: K.202; M.199; W.168
Impressions taken from this plate  (54)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 202) 'Nocturne: Palaces'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 199) 'Nocturne: Palaces'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 168) 'Nocturne: Palaces'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855- 1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 12) 'Nocturne Palaces'.
  • 50 Etchings and Drypoints (Venice Second Series), H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1883 (cat. no. 12) 'Nocturne Palaces'.
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, Chicago, 1893 (cat. no. 2248 (1665)) ' Nocturne, Palaces'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 147) 'Nocturne Palaces'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. E148) 'Nocturne: Palaces'.
  • International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 212) 'Nocturne Palace'.
  • International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 237 ) 'Nocturne Palace'.
  • Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901 (cat. no. 1398) 'Nocturne – Palaces'.
  • Art and Industrial Exhibition, Wolverhampton, 1902 (cat. no. 134) 'Nocturne’s Palaces'.
  • 71st Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1902 (cat. no. 947 (168)) 'Nocturne Palaces'.
  • 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. 145) 'Nocturne Palaces'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no.131) 'Nocturne Palaces'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. nos. 170a, b, c, d, e) 'Nocturne Palaces'.
  • 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. nos. 133, 134) 'Nocturne Palaces'.
  • Etchings, Dry Points, And a few Drawings by Whistler, Frederick Keppel and Co., New York, 1904 (cat. no. 78) ' Nocturne - Palaces'.
  • 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. 168) 'Nocturne Palaces'.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 367) 'Nocturne Palaces'.
  • Tentoonstelling van Aquarellen, Pastels, Teekingen, Etsen, Lithogaphien en een Schildrij door James McNeill Whistler, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1906 (cat. no. 78) 'Nocturne Palaces'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • Anon., Sussex Daily News, 21 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/33).
  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler', Whitehall Review, 22 February 1883 (GUL PC25/35).
  • Anon., Coventry Standard, 23 February 1883 (GUL PC6/42).
  • Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Etchings', Building News, 23 February 1883 (GUL PC6/42).
  • Anon., Athenaeum, 24 February 1883 (GUL PC25/25).
  • Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Exhibition', Saturday Review, 24 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/32).
  • Anon., North London Advertiser, [25 February/ 3 March1883] (GUL PC6/44 ).
  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler', unidentified press-cutting, [February/March 1883], (GUL PC3/44).
  • John Forbes-Robertson, 'Mr. Whistler, His Arrangement in White and Yellow, His Etchings and His Catalogue', Pictorial World, 31 March 1883 (GUL PC 8/8).

GENERAL 1855-1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 12).
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890 , p. 96.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Ann Arbor 1996: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1996 (cat. no. 48).
  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000 , pp. 98-101, 192, figs 113-114.
  • Los Angeles 1984: Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 60).
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , pp. 182, 194, 196, 200-5, 232, 281 (no. 201).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 730).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001 . p.71, 84, 115, 120, 123, 137, pl.126.