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Whistler's Mother

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1903.252)
Number: 103
Date: 1871
Medium: drypoint
Size: 256 x 156 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 20
Catalogues: K.97; M.99; W.88
Impressions taken from this plate  (20)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 88) 'Whistler's Mother'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 99) 'Whistler's Mother'.
  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 97) 'Whistler's Mother'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855- 1905

  • 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. 71) 'Whistler's Mother'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 92) 'Whistler's Mother'.
  • Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'École des Beaux-Art, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 29) 'La mère de Whistler. - (Whistler's mother)'.
  • 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. 88) 'Whistler's Mother'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • None.

GENERAL 1906-PRESENT

  • Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340, 349.
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984, pp. 279 (no. 97).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., ‘Whistler: The Painting of the "Mother"’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 85, pp.73-88, Paris, 1975.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro and P. de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, pp. 34, 38, fig. 38.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., (ed.), Whistler's Mother: An American Icon, Aldershot & Burlington, 2003, pp. 34, 38.