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Quiet Canal

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1887.25)
Number: 224
Date: 1879/1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 229 x 154 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Second Venice Set', 1886
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 35
Catalogues: K.214; M.211; W.184
Impressions taken from this plate  (35)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 211) 'Quiet Canal'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 186) 'Quiet Canal'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 184) 'Quiet Canal'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855- 1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 47) 'Quiet Canal'.
  • 50 Etchings and Drypoints (Venice Second Series), H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1883 (cat. no. 47) 'Quiet Canal'.
  • Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints. and Lithographs by Whistler, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1898 (cat. no. 163 ) 'Quiet Canal'.
  • An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, The Caxton Club, 1900 (cat. no. E164) 'Quiet Canal'.
  • International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 226) 'Quiet Canal'.
  • 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. 161) 'Quiet Canal'.
  • A Collection of Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler recently acquired, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 147) 'Quiet Canal'.
  • Catalogue of a Collection of Etchings, Dry Points and Lithographs, H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, 1903 (cat. no. 96) 'Quiet Canal'.
  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 186) 'Quiet Canal'.
  • 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. 184) 'Quiet Canal'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Etchings,' Daily News, 20 February 1883 (GUL PC25/20).
  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Exhibition,' Saturday Review, 24 February 1883 (GUL PC 25/32).

GENERAL 1855-1905

  • Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883 (cat. no. 47).
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, p. 103.

GENERAL 1906- PRESENT

  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 85, 183, 192, fig. 92.
  • Drawing Near. Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 (cat. no. 61).
  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984, pp. 182, 232, 281 (no. 220).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, p. 120.