Object details
Object number
2.3.o.72
Creator(s)
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Title
The Lime-Burner
Date
1859
Medium
Etching and drypoint on Japanese gampi paper
State
II/II
Dimensions
25.1 x 17.5 cm (9 7/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Signed in plate (lower right): Whistler. 1859.
Numbered in graphite (lower right): 2
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. 46.
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), pp. 34-35, no. 44.
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), pp. 33-34, no. 52.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), p. 17, no. 46.
Denys Sutton. James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels, and Watercolours (London, 1966), pp. 8, 185, pl. 5.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). p. 13, no. 43
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, 86, 87, 170, 174, 191, 278, no. 49.
Pierre Cabanne. Whistler (New York, 1985), pp. 14-15, ill.
Carole McNamara and John Siewert. Whistler: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision. Exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1996), pp. 54-55, no. 14.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "The Lime-Burner." James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 55, accessed 14 June 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
Gallery
Short Gallery
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