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

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M.1602
Sketches of 'The Gold Scab'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1900
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 91729523
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper with watermark ‘The Hanover / [star] Note Paper’
Size: 178 x 227 mm (7 x 8 15/16")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: ‘By J. Whistler’, in an unknown hand
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Sketches of 'The Gold Scab'

Composition

Sketches of 'The Gold Scab', Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Sketches of 'The Gold Scab', Library of Congress, Washington, DC
The Gold Scab, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Gold Scab, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

This is a memory sketch of The Gold Scab [YMSM 208].

Technique

It is on similar paper to Sketch of a Peacock shutter and fighting Peacocks [M.1603].

Last updated: 7th March 2021 by Margaret