Gaiety Stage Door

Accession Number
1954/1.419

Title
Gaiety Stage Door

Artist(s)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Artist Nationality
American (North American)

Object Creation Date
1879

Medium & Support
transfer lithograph with scraping on buff-colored paper, laid down on white wove

Dimensions
15 x 21 5/8 in. (38 x 54.9 cm);7 3/16 x 8 15/16 in. (18.2 x 22.7 cm);15 x 21 5/8 in. (38 x 54.9 cm)

Credit Line
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker

Subject matter
The Way's printing offices on Wellington Street faced the back of the Gaiety Theatre and Whistler several times drew the stage door of the theatre from the Way's establishment. In this way, technical innovations introduced by the Ways--such as the use of transfer paper--could be experimented with immediately by Whistler.
"Gaiety Stage Door" was published in the portfolio "Notes" in 1887.

Physical Description
A building with an arched doorway, windows at the center right, and the beginning of a flight of stairs on the right acts as architectural foils for the figures and a cart and horse (hansom cab?) arrayed in front of the building or grouped in the dark entryway.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Western

Rights
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Keywords
Animals
buildings
cart
carts
doorways
stair
steps (stair units)
window
windows

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London
(Part of 2 Learning Collections)

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