Object details
Accession number
2.3.r.84
Primary Creator
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Full title
Saint James's Street
Creation Date
1878
State
IV/IV
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by September 1903.
Marks
Inscribed in etching (lower left): Whistler's butterfly signature
Dimensions
27.9 x 15.4 cm (11 x 6 1/16 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
Sir Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: A Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), p. 63, no. 140.
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), no. 165.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), p. 63. cat. 169.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). pp. 19, 21, no. 66.
Walter Muir Whitehill. "Some Correspondence of Matthew Stewart Prichard and Isabella Stewart Gardner." Fenway Court (1974), p. 26, ill.
From Realism to Symbolism: Whistler and His World. Exh. cat. (New York: Wildenstein; Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971), p. 48, no. 27, pl. 40.
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), p. 280, no. 172.
Catherine E. Hutchina (ed.). Fleeting Impressions: Prints by James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (Montgomery: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 2006), pp. 17, 42-44, no. 31.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "St James's Street" James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 178, accessed 2015. etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
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