Object details
Object number
2.2.o.63
Creator(s)
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Title
Street at Saverne
Date
1858
Medium
Etching on Japanese paper
State
III/IV
Dimensions
21.3 x 15.9 cm (8 3/8 x 6 1/4 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Signed in plate (recto, lower left): Whistler
Inscribed in plate (recto, lower left): Imp. Delatre. Rue St. Jacques. 171 [printer's mark, Auguste Delâtre; faintly visible]
Numbered in graphite (recto, upper left): 10
Numbered in graphite (verso): 36081
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
Ralph Thomas. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of James Abbott MacNeil Whistler (London, 1874), no. 7.
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), p. 20, no. 11.
Théodore Duret. Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre (Paris, 1904), p. 11.
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), pp. 12-13, no. 19.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), pp. 8-9, no. 19.
Denys Sutton. James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels, and Watercolours (London, 1966), pp. 8, 185, pl. 4.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). p. 4, no. 9, pl. II.
David Park Curry. James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, 1984), pp. 167, 296, pl. 78.
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. 43, 45, 55, 57, 61, 196, 278, no. 21.
Pierre Cabanne. Whistler (New York, 1985), pp. 14-15, ill.
Richard Dorment and Margaret F. MacDonald. James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (London: Tate Gallery, 1994; Paris: Musée d'Orsay, 1995), pp. 63, 185-86, nos. 106, 107.
Carole McNamara and John Siewert. Whistler: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision. Exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1996), pp. 36-37, no. 4.
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), pp. 82-83, fig. 107, no. 120.
Catherine E. Hutchina (ed.). Fleeting Impressions: Prints by James McNeill Whistler. Exh. Cat. (Montgomery: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 2006), pp. 14-15, 24-25, no. 1.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "Street at Saverne." James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 14, accessed 10 June 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
Gallery
Short Gallery
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