Passport, GUL NB10t

Whistler's Passport was issued in Washington DC on 28 July 1855 and the enclosed notebook was used in Europe until at least 1863, and possibly until 1871.

Wapping, pencil, GUL NB10, p. 43

Wapping, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

The notebook includes the earliest known study for the oil Wapping [YMSM 035], which probably dates from 1860.

The drawings in the notebook are fully recorded in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 298).

The notes are fully transcribed in The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. Online edition, University of Glasgow. #12745.