Object details
Object number
P27w17
Creator(s)
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Title
Six Figures in a Landscape
Date
about 1887
Medium
Pen and dark brown ink on buff paper
Dimensions
11.3 x 17.5 cm (4 7/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Watermark (a crown with text): [Iri]sh Linen / ... WARD
Provenance
Probably a gift of the American painter Harper Pennington (1854-1920) to Isabella Stewart Gardner, March 1904.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). Drawings: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1968), p. 67. (entitled "Six Figures in a Landscape")
Deborah Gribbon. "Whistler's Sketch of an Unfinished Symphony." Fenway Court (1980), p. 27, n2.
Margaret MacDonald. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: a Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), p. 436, no. 1162. (as "Cemetery"; as about 1887)
"Cemetery. Hunterian Art Gallery Whistler Collections: GLAHA 46128." Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, accessed 2015. http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/foxweb/huntsearch/DetailedResults.fwx?collection=whistler&searchTerm=46128 (as related to museum no. GLAHA 46128)
Gallery
Long Gallery
Case
Sargent / Whistler Case
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