Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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M.0340
The Valparaiso Notebook

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1865/1875
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler NB9
Medium: pencil
Support: off-white laid paper bound in notebook: boards card, covered in bottle-green watered taffeta
Size: 5 5/8" x 2 7/8" (143 x 74 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: various notes, see Subject/Description tab
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The Valparaiso Notebook

The Valparaiso Notebook dates from 1865/1875. Whistler's trip to Valparaiso lasted from February to September 1866. However, some entries in the notebook refer back to events in 1865 and others date from after his return, while one transaction (p. 5) was precisely dated 10 January 1867.

Cover, Valparaiso Notebook, Glasgow University Library
Cover, Valparaiso Notebook, Glasgow University Library
'Map of America', Valparaiso Notebook, p. 12, Glasgow University Library
'Map of America', Valparaiso Notebook, p. 12, Glasgow University Library

Fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 340). The text is transcribed in GUW #04335.

Last updated: 7th March 2021 by Margaret