Traghetto |  Art Institute of Chicago (1927.5960) | |
| Number: | 231 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 240 x 311 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left (1-2); replaced with new butterfly (3-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 7 | |
| Catalogues: | K.190; M.187 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (7) | ||
CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS
- Kennedy, Edward G., Catalogue of Etchings by J. McN. Whistler, Compiled by an Amateur. Supplementary to that Compiled by F. Wedmore, New York, 1902 (cat. no. 368) 'The Traghetto'.
- Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 190) 'The Traghetto, No. 1'.
- Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 187) 'The Traghetto, No. 1'.
EXHIBITIONS 1855- 1905
- An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. 137) 'The Traghetto'.
- International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 242) 'The Traghetto'.
- Catalogue of a Collection of Etchings, Dry Points and Lithographs, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 71) 'The Traghetto'.
- Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 157) 'The Traghetto'.
REVIEWS 1855- 1905
- None.
GENERAL 1906- PRESENT
- Ann Arbor 1996: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1996 (cat. no. 36).
- Bacher, Otto Henry, With Whistler in Venice, 2nd ed., New York, 1908, pp. 165-166, 169-172, 174-175, 177-180, 182, 183.
- 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. 83-84, 189.
- Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984, pp. 214, 280 (no. 188).
- MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001. pp. 62, 70, 79, 83, 128.
- Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, pp. 284-285.