Object details

Object number

2.2.r.65

Creator(s)

James McNeill Whistler (Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)

Title

Rotherhithe

Date

1860

Medium

Etching and drypoint on Japanese gampi paper

State

III/VI

Dimensions

27.3 x 20 cm (10 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.)

Signatures, inscriptions, and markings

Signed in plate (lower left): Whistler, 1860

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. 41.
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), pp. 39-40, no. 60.
Théodore Duret. Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre (Paris, 1904), p. 14.
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), pp. 43-44, no. 66.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), p. 25, no. 66.
Denys Sutton. James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels, and Watercolours (London, 1966), pp. 8, 186, pl. 16. (as "Rotherhithe - Wapping")
Denys Sutton. "'Un Monsieur Rare, Prince en Quelque Chose...'" and "Rotherhithe (Wapping)" in P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). p. vii, 8, 12, no. 40, pl. VII.
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. 16, 38-39, no. 10.
M. Knoedler & Company, Inc.. Notes, Harmonies & Nocturnes. Exh. cat. (New York: M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., 1984), p. 54, no. 62.
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. 116, 118-20, 165, 193, 278, no. 70.
Pierre Cabanne. Whistler (New York, 1985), p. 16, ill.
Richard Dorment and Margaret F. MacDonald. James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (London: Tate Gallery, 1994; Paris: Musée d'Orsay, 1995), pp. 104-105, no. 34.
Carole McNamara and John Siewert. Whistler: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision. Exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1996), pp. 58-59, no. 16.
Catherine E. Hutchina (ed.). Fleeting Impressions: Prints by James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (Montgomery: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 2006), pp. 16, 36-37, no. 6.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "Rotherhithe." James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 70, accessed 10 June 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/

Gallery

Short Gallery

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