Object details
Object number
2.1.r.55
Creator(s)
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Title
Victoria Club
Date
about 1879
Medium
Transfer lithograph in black ink on chine collé
State
unknown state of II
Dimensions
23.5 x 15.4 cm (9 1/4 x 6 1/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Signed in stone (lower left): Whistler's butterfly signature
Inscribed in graphite (verso): 7-29-03 / 9104
Inscribed in graphite on mount (lower left corner): WII
Inscribed in graphite on mount (bottom): Victoria Club / 75
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by September 1903.
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
Thomas Robert Way. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue (London, 1896), pp. 13-14, no. 11.
Thomas Robert Way. Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist (London, 1912), p. 87.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Lithographs by Whistler from the Collection of Thomas R. Way. Exh. cat. (New York: Frederick Keppel & Co., 1914), p. 9, no. 11.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). pp. 20-21, no. 70.
Mervyn Levy (ed.). Whistler Lithographs: A Catalogue Raisonné (London, 1975), no. 22.
Susan Hobbs and Nesta R. Spink. Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (Smithsonian Institution: Washington, D.C., 1982), pp. 10, 12, 44, no. 7.
Martha Tedeschi (ed.). The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1998), no. 15.
Gallery
Short Gallery
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