Technique

Nocturne: Battersea, Private Collection

It was painted thinly on coarse canvas.

Conservation History

Nocturne: Battersea, photograph, 1980

Unknown. Old photographs suggest it was perhaps rather uneven, and possibly rubbed down in areas.

Frame

Whistler Memorial Exhibition, Boston 1904, photograph, GUL Whistler PH6/6

By 1904, as shown in the Boston exhibition, it was in a Grau-type frame.