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

 

M.0474
r.: Sketch of Battersea Reach for a Nocturne; v.: Illegible (skyline?)

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1872/1875
Collection: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Accession Number: 69.93
Medium: chalk
Support: brown wove paper, torn
Size: 5 7/16-5 11/16 x 10 1/8-10 3/8" (138-145 x 258-263 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

r.: Sketch of Battersea Reach for a Nocturne; v.: Illegible (skyline?)

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no 474) as 'r.: Sketch of Battersea Reach for a Nocturne; v.: Illegible (skyline?)'.

Books on Whistler

  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, pp. 14-15, repr. p. 14.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Merrill, Linda, et al., After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2003, p. 70, repr. fig. 61 (not exhibited).

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret