Object details
Accession number
2.1.o.50
Primary Creator
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Full title
Waterloo Bridge
Creation Date
1896
State
I/I
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Marks
Signed on stone (lower right): Whistler's butterfly signature
Signed in pencil (lower left): Whistler's butterfly signature
Dimensions
20 x 13 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
Display Media
Lithograph printed on 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
Short Gallery
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.
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