Object details
Accession number
2.1.o.51
Primary Creator
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Full title
Old Battersea Bridge
Creation Date
1879
State
IV/VII
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Marks
Inscribed in etching: Whistler's butterfly signature
Inscribed (on tab): Whistler's butterfly signature
Inscribed (on tab): "imp." [hand of Whistler]
Dimensions
20.5 x 29.5 cm (8 1/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
Display Media
Etching and drypoint 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
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), p. 63, no. 141.
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), pp. 110-11, no. 174.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), p. 67, no. 177.
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. 18, no. 61, pl. XIV.
Allen Staley. "Whistler and his World" in From Realism to Symbolism: Whistler and His World. Exh. cat. (New York: Wildenstein; Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971), pp. 13, 16, 42-43, nos. 16, 28, pl. 41.
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. 179-80, 280, no. 182.
Margaret F. MacDonald. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours, a Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), pp. 179, no. 481.
Carole McNamara and John Siewert. Whistler: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision. Exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1996), pp. 84-85, no. 30.
Martha Tedeschi and Britt Salvesen. Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography. Exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998; Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1999), p. 41, fig. 39, no. 41.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "Old Battersea Bridge." James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 188, accessed 6 June 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
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