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

 

M.0969
A Little Red Note: Dordrecht

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1908.15a-b
Medium: watercolour
Support: cream paper, laid down on card
Size: 4 15/16 x 8 7/16" (126 x 215 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: v.: originally inscribed 'A little Red Note, Dordrecht, J. McNeill Whistler' and signed with butterfly

A Little Red Note: Dordrecht

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A Little Red Note: Dordrecht, Freer Gallery of Art
A Little Red Note: Dordrecht, Freer Gallery of Art

The river Maas, in the Netherlands, with the windmill of Welgelegen in Zwijndrecht in the distance. 1

Notes:

1: Heijbroek 1997 [more] , p. 55-56, 58, repr. fig viii, photograph of site, fig. 60.

Last updated: 6th December 2020 by Margaret