Saint James's Street
artist
James McNeill Whistler
(American, 1834 - 1903)
Date1878
Place MadeEngland, Europe
MediumEtching and drypoint on Japanese gampi paper
Dimensions27.9 x 15.6 cm (11 x 6 1/8 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number2.3.r.84
eMuseum ID726055
EmbARK ObjectID14018
Original Number1.3.r.57
TMS Source ID2852
Last Updated10/3/24
Status
Not on viewWeb 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.
BibliographyNotesSir 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/
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/
MarksNotesInscribed in plate (lower left): Whistler's butterfly signature
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by September 1903.
