Object details
Object number
2.1.o.50
Creator(s)
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Title
Waterloo Bridge
Date
1896
Medium
Lithograph on laid paper
State
I/I
Dimensions
20 x 13 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Signed in plate (lower right): Whistler's butterfly signature
Signed in graphite (lower left): Whistler's butterfly signature
Inscribed in graphite (verso, lower right): Waterloo. [indecipherable]
Signed in graphite (verso, lower right): Whistler's butterfly signature
Watermark
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
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
Thomas Robert Way. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue (London, 1896), p. 40, no. 123.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 130.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). p. 64, no. 230.
Mervyn Levy (ed.). Whistler Lithographs: A Catalogue Raisonné (London, 1975), no. 177.
Susan Hobbs and Nesta R. Spink. Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (Smithsonian Institution: Washington, D.C., 1982), p. 74, no. 80.
Martha Tedeschi (ed.). The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1998), no. 156.
Catherine E. Hutchina (ed.). Fleeting Impressions: Prints by James McNeill Whistler. Exh. at. (Montgomery: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 2006), pp. 100-101, no. 29.
Gallery
Short Gallery
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