Object details
Accession number
2.1.r.57
Primary Creator
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Full title
The Winged Hat
Creation Date
1890
State
I/II
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by September 1903.
Marks
Signed on stone (recto, left center): Whistler's butterfly signatureNumbered in pencil (verso, lower left): a43399
Dimensions
17.8 x 17.1 cm (7 x 6 3/4 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. 17, no. 25.
Thomas Robert Way. Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist (London, 1912), pp. 89, 107.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Lithographs by Whistler from the Collection of Thomas R. Way. Exh. cat. (New York: Frederick Keppel & Co., 1914), pp. 6, 10, no. 17.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). p. 46, no. 162, pl. XXXVII.
Mervyn Levy (ed.). Whistler Lithographs: A Catalogue Raisonné (London, 1975), no. 38.
Susan Hobbs and Nesta R. Spink. Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (Smithsonian Institution: Washington, D.C., 1982), pp. 27, 66, no. 61.
T.R. Way. "Mr. Whistler's Lithographs" (London, 1895) in Robin Spencer (ed.). Whistler: A Retrospective (New York, 1989), p. 306.
Pierre Cabanne. Whistler (New York, 1985), p. 80, ill.
Margaret F. MacDonald. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours, a Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), p. 395, no. 1060.
Martha Tedeschi (ed.). The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1998), no. 34.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. Whistler, Women & Fashion. Exh. cat. (New York: The Frick Collection, 2003), pp. 138, 193-94, fig. 189.
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