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Lobster Pots - Selsea Bill

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1917.469)
Number: 241
Date: 1880/1881
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 121 x 203 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right
Inscribed: 'Selsea Bill'
Set/Publication: 'Second Venice Set', 1886
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 32
Catalogues: K.235; M.233; W.174
Impressions taken from this plate  (32)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 235) 'Lobster-Pots'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 233) 'Lobster-Pots'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 174) 'Lobster-Pots'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855- 1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 23) 'Lobster Pots'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 153) 'Lobster Pots'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. E154) 'Lobster Pots'.
  • International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 211) 'Lobster Pots'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings and Dry Points by Mr. Whistler, Frederick Keppel and Co., New York, 1902 .
  • Catalogue of a Collection of Etchings, Dry Points and Lithographs, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 86) 'Lobster Pots'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, Obach and Co., London, 1903 (cat. no. 151) 'Lobster Pots'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 137) 'Lobster Pots'.
  • Etchings, Dry Points, And a few Drawings by Whistler, Frederick Keppel and Co., New York, 1904 (cat. no. 82) 'Lobster-Pots'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 176) 'Lobster Pots'.
  • 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. 174) 'Lobster Pots'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • 'H.W.S.' [Sweny], Venice and Whistler', People, 25 February 1883 (GUL PC6/44).
  • Anon., 'Whistler's Queer Conceits. A Novel Arrangement in White and yellow', New York World, 11 October 1883 (GUL PC3/59 and (GUL PC4/12).
  • Anon., 'Whistler's Arrangement'. Etchings on Exhibition in New York in a "Yellow-and-White" Setting', Boston Evening Transcript, 12 October 1883 (GUL PC4/16).

GENERAL 1855-1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat.no. 23)
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890 , p. 98.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , pp. 232, 281 (no. 237).