Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

 

The Giudecca; note in flesh colour

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 817) as 'The Giudecca; note in flesh colour'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 13) as 'The Giudecca; note in flesh colour'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'Venice Pastels, Daily Telegraph, London, 5 February 1881.
  • 'Art: Venice Pastels', The Observer, London, 6 February 1881, supplement p. 1.
  • Anon., [Quilter, H.], 'Mr Whistler's Venice Pastels', The Times, London, 9 February 1881, p. 4.

Journals 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Pastels', Athenaeum, no. 2780, 5 February 1881 , p. 206.
  • The Country Gentleman, 5 February 1881.
  • Anon., 'Mr Whistler's Venice, or, Pastels by Pastelthwaite', Punch, vol. 80, 12 February 1881, p. 69.

Books on Whistler

  • Grieve, Alastair, Whistler's Venice, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 160-61, repr. pl. 203, view repr. pl. 204.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, Aldershot and California, 2001, p. 99, 107, repr. pl. 113.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, repr. f.p. 52.

Websites

  • Collections Database Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium online at http://museums.fivecolleges.edu.

Last updated: 16th February 2021 by Margaret