Object details
Object number
2.3.o.75
Creator(s)
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Title
Eagle Wharf
Date
1859
Medium
Etching on Japanese gampi paper
State
I/I
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Signed in plate (lower center): Whistler. 1859.Numbered in graphite (lower right): 7
Dimensions
13.7 x 20.6 cm (5 3/8 x 8 1/8 in.)
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.
Gallery
Short Gallery
Bibliography
Ralph Thomas. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of James Abbott MacNeil Whistler (London, 1874), no. 40.
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), p. 31, no. 39. (as "Tyzac, Whiteley, & Co.")
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), p. 25, no. 40.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), p. 15, no. 41.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). p. 10, no. 29.
Katharine A. Lochnan. The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984; Toronto: The Art Gallery of Ontario, 1985), pp. 81-82, 87-88, 95-96, 170, 278, no. 44.
Emma Chambers. "Etching from Nature: Images of the Urban and Rural Thames in the Work of Whistler and Haden," The Whistler Review (Glasgow, 1999), pp. 3, 5-6, fig. 4.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "Eagle Wharf." James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 50, accessed 15 June 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
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