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

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YMSM 331
Blue and Grey: Dieppe

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown
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Blue and Grey: Dieppe

Titles

Only one title is known, with varying punctuation:

  • 'Blue and grey – Dieppe' (1886, Dowdeswell). 1
  • 'Blue and Grey: Dieppe' (1980, YMSM). 2

'Blue and Grey: Dieppe' is the preferred version.

Description

It was presumably a scene of sea and sand.

Site

Dieppe, a ferry port and popular tourist town on the coast of France.

Notes:

1: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 28).

2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 331).

Last updated: 21st November 2020 by Margaret