New-York tribune., 1910-02-20

them in a fairly chronological sequence "'tn
ind;cations as TO where they may be touno'
1-.naoi~ 1,,y has this latter service been unoer-
taken FOR the benefit of the connolsseur oi
prints The names of Bartsch ana befalui' !"
name only two in a long list, are heio " 7
honor BY the collector. Without the pages "a
these and other authorities ne Wo'io oi'o '
indeed in sad case. painfully picking MS "AS
through an almost intolerable CONFUSION as u
dates states and so on. Many dh h'S'o "
of pemhrandt has been helpful to the collector
of The great Dutchman's etchlnsS, but IL was
left to Rovinski to prepare the defnitive Illus
.o+ed catalogue which would illuminate prac-
,ica1rv every nook and Granny of the subject II
the nrjnt collector. looking over that BOOK at
the time of its publication twenty years ago.
had been asked what companion it neeoeo' lie
could have made only one answer oeihaiioii's
similar work on Whistler. Such q work has
aow been printed
If is the latest of these publications brought
at in luxurious form and III limited editions
ah;cb hear the imprint of the Grolier Club, and
, forms precious monument to the genius u
, GREAT American artist 1t consists, in the
" place of a convenient quarto, beautl1uiiS
inted at the De Vinne Press, and having Tor
rs title THE Etched Work of Whistler Illus
lrated by Reproductions in Collotype OF the
different States of the Plates; Compiled, Ar
ranged and Described by Edward c. Kennedy
With an Introduction by Royal Cortlssoz
This however, forms only part OF the scheme.
II is accompanied by three portfolios when
contain more than a thousand facsimiles. In
other words, we have here IN some sort
unique collection of Whistler's etchIngs. gal
lery to which the collector may turn for abso-
lutely conclusive information as to practically
every touch of the artists needle The author
of no bricf intrOductiOn
be permitted to interfere with some description
in this place of 4 work long awaited by stu
dents of Whistler promising an aid to the
pursuit of their hobby available in no other
way.
The desirability of list of whstlers etch-
:ngs was recognized for back as 1874. when
AIr Ralph Thomas prepared catalogue of the
eghty-fve subjects then known to him. The
next writer to take up the subject was MI
Frederick Wcdmore. who published catalogue
Of o14 plates in 1856. Thirteen years later he
issued a second edition, incudEs "a additional
subjects and after three years Mr.. Kennedy
stiil further extended this record, enumerating
nearly q hundred subjects not previously cata-
logued The exhibition at the Grolier Club in
1904 afforded an opportunity to put thirty-four
subjects in the list and there, fer time.
the matter rested. In 1909 it was brought TO
notice again through the publication by the
Caxton Club in Chicago of a catalogue by Mr.
Howard Mansfield, enumerating 440 plates,
treating five additional pieces in an appendix,
and thus exceeding the Iabors of all previous
conpilers Every of these Whistlerian dew
otees is gratefully recognized by the collector,
but they necessarily yield to MI Kennedy,
whose text disclosing in itself exhaustive
knowledge, is rendered doubly valuable by the
facsimiles accompanying it.
bo of he