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The Winged Hat
(c) 2021 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2021 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

The Winged Hat

artist (American, 1834 - 1903)
Date1890
Place MadeEngland, Europe
MediumLithograph on wove paper
Dimensions28.4 x 21.3 cm (11 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number2.1.r.57
eMuseum ID727576
Original Number2.2.r.79
EmbARK ObjectID13991
TMS Source ID2825
Last Updated10/3/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella 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.
BibliographyNotesThomas Robert Way. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue (London, 1896), p. 17, no. 25.
Thomas Robert Way. Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist (London, 1912), pp. 89, 107.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Lithographs by Whistler from the Collection of Thomas R. Way. Exh. cat. (New York: Frederick Keppel & Co., 1914), pp. 6, 10, no. 17.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. An Exhibition of Etchings, Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler (London, 16 November - 10 December 1971). p. 46, no. 162, pl. XXXVII.
Mervyn Levy (ed.). Whistler Lithographs: A Catalogue Raisonné (London, 1975), no. 38.
Susan Hobbs and Nesta R. Spink. Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (Smithsonian Institution: Washington, D.C., 1982), pp. 27, 66, no. 61.
T.R. Way. "Mr. Whistler's Lithographs" (London, 1895) in Robin Spencer (ed.). Whistler: A Retrospective (New York, 1989), p. 306.
Pierre Cabanne. Whistler (New York, 1985), p. 80, ill.
Margaret F. MacDonald. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours, a Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), p. 395, no. 1060.
Martha Tedeschi (ed.). The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1998), no. 34.
Margaret F. MacDonald et al. Whistler, Women & Fashion. Exh. cat. (New York: The Frick Collection, 2003), pp. 138, 193-94, fig. 189.
MarksNotesSigned on stone (recto, left center): Whistler's butterfly signature
Inscribed in graphite (verso, lower left): a43399 
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by September 1903.
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James McNeill Whistler
1890
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