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

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Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1855
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: watercolour
Support: paper
Size: 511 x 727 mm (20 1/8 x 28 5/8")
Signature: 'Whistler'
Inscription: none
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Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water'

Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water' dates from 1855.

Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water', watercolour, Private collection
Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water', watercolour, Private collection

Originally thought to have been a lost oil, it has now been located, and is a watercolour. 1

Notes:

1: MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 176) as Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water'.

Last updated: 25th November 2020 by Margaret