Object details
Accession number
2.2.r.64
Primary Creator
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Full title
Thames Police
Creation Date
1859
State
III/VI
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Marks
Signed in etching (lower right): "Whistler. 1859."
Dimensions
15.2 x 22.7 cm (6 x 8 15/16 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
Ralph Thomas. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of James Abbott MacNeil Whistler (London, 1874), no. 43.
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), pp. 32-33, no. 42.
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. 27-28, no. 43. (as "Wapping Warf")
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), pp. 16-17, no. 44.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). p. 11, no. 33.
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. 81, 170, 278, no. 47 (as "Wapping Warf")
Catherine E. Hutchina (ed.). Fleeting Impressions: Prints by James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (Montgomery: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 2006), pp. 16, 39, 105, ill.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "Thames Police." James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 53, accessed 10 June 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
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