Object details
Accession number
2.3.o.73
Primary Creator
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Full title
The Forge
Creation Date
1861
State
IV/VII
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Marks
Signed in etching (lower right): "Whistler. 1861." ["t" not crossed]
Dimensions
19.1 x 31.4 cm (7 1/2 x 12 3/8 in.)
Display Media
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
Ralph Thomas. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of James Abbott MacNeil Whistler (London, 1874), no. 57.
Frederick Wedmore. Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), p. 41, no. 63.
Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1909), pp. 44-45, no. 68.
Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York, 1910), p. 26, no. 68.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). p. 14, no. 48.
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. 134, 135, 165, 170, 272, 279, no. 91.
Richard Dorment and Margaret F. MacDonald. James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (London: Tate Gallery, 1994; Paris: Musée d'Orsay, 1995), p. 184, no. 106.
Margaret F. MacDonald. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours, a Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), p. 97, no. 300.
Carole McNamara and John Siewert. Whistler: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision. Exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1996), pp. 56-57, no. 15.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. "The Forge." James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (University of Glasgow, 2012), no. 86, accessed 14 June 2016. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/
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