Object details
Accession number
P27w17
Primary Creator
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Full title
Six Figures in a Landscape
Creation Date
about 1887
Object Case
Sargent / Whistler Case
Provenance
Probably a gift of the American painter Harper Pennington (1854-1920) to Isabella Stewart Gardner, March 1904.
Marks
Watermark (a crown with text): [Iri]sh Linen / ... WARD
Dimensions
11.3 x 17.5 cm (4 7/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
Display Media
Pen and dark brown ink on buff paper
Web 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.
Permanent Gallery Location
Long Gallery
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)
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