Artist: James McNeill Whistler Date: 1883/1884 Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum, London Accession Number: P.19-1934 Medium: watercolour Support: white paper laid down on card Size: 9 3/4 x 6 3/4" (248 x 172 mm) Signature: butterfly Inscription: v.: '16' and 'Westgate' in unknown hands
Blue and brown – Westgate, the Moors, Victoria And Albert Museum
Westgate-on-sea is on the Kent coast just west of Margate, a popular day-trip from London. It is near Birchington (where D. G. Rossetti died in 1882) and Whitstable.