Object details
Accession number
2.3.o.75
Primary Creator
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Full title
Eagle Wharf
Creation Date
1859
State
I/I
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Marks
Signed in etching (lower center): "Whistler. 1859."
Dimensions
13.7 x 21.4 cm (5 3/8 x 8 7/16 in.)
Display Media
Etching 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. 40.
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), p. 31, no. 39. (as "Tyzac, Whiteley, & Co.")
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), p. 25, no. 40.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), p. 15, no. 41.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). p. 10, no. 29.
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. 81-82, 87-88, 95-96, 170, 278, no. 44.
Emma Chambers. "Etching from Nature: Images of the Urban and Rural Thames in the Work of Whistler and Haden," The Whistler Review (Glasgow, 1999), pp. 3, 5-6, fig. 4.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "Eagle Wharf." James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 50, accessed 15 June 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
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