Object details
Accession number
2.3.o.76
Primary Creator
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Full title
Thames Warehouses
Creation Date
1859
State
V/V
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Marks
Signed in etching (lower right): "Whistler 1859"
Inscribed in etching: "FREDK [superscript 'K'] VINK & Co [superscript 'o']"/ "ROPE & SAIL MAKERS", "SMITH & SON./HERMITAGE COAL WHARF", "HO[A]RES WHARF"
Dimensions
7.6 x 20.3 cm (3 x 8 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. 42. (as "View Up the River")
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), p. 31, no. 35. (as "Thames Warehouse, from Thames Tunnel Pier")
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), p. 23, no. 37.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), pp. 14-15, no. 38.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). p. 10, no. 28.
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. 76, 278, no. 41.
Catherine E. Hutchina (ed.). Fleeting Impressions: Prints by James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (Montgomery: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 2006), pp. 16, 106.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "Thames Warehouses." James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 46, accessed 15 June 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
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