Object details
Accession number
2.2.r.70
Primary Creator
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Full title
The Little Pool
Creation Date
1861
State
IX/IX
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Marks
Signed and dated in etching (recto, left center): "Whistler - 1861"Numbered in pencil (verso, lower left): a37531
Dimensions
10.2 x 12.4 cm (4 x 4 7/8 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
Ralph Thomas. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of James Abbott MacNeil Whistler (London, 1874), no. 48. (as "View up the River Rotherhithe")
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), p. 44, no. 72.
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), pp. 48-50, no. 73.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), pp. 28-29, no. 74.
Denys Sutton. James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels, and Watercolours (London, 1966), pp. 8, 186, pl. 14.
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. 125-26, 170, 174, 279, no. 75.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "The Little Pool." James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 79, accessed 13 June 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
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