Object details
Accession number
2.3.r.85
Primary Creator
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Full title
The Two Ships
Creation Date
1861
State
unknown / V
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by September 1903.
Marks
Signed in etching (lower left): Whistler's butterfly signature
Dimensions
20.6 x 13.2 cm (8 1/8 x 5 3/16 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
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1899), p. 56, no. 116.
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), pp. 90-91, no. 146.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), pp. 54-55, no. 148.
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. 150.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "The Two Ships." James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 143, accessed 16 June 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
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