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

 

M.0967
View on the Scheldt

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884/1885
Collection: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Accession Number: No. 6570
Medium: watercolour
Support: off-white paper
Size: 4 7/8 x 8 7/16" (124 x 214 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'View (on the Scheldt?) Holland / by Whistler / (From the Collection of Miss R. Birnie Philip) Whistler's Executrix / A21132).' by Harold Wright

View on the Scheldt

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 967) as 'View on the Scheldt'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 32) as 'Grey and silver – The Scheldt'.

Books on Whistler

  • Heijbroek, J. F., and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Holland, Zwolle and Amsterdam, 1997, pp. 126-27, repr. fig. 150 as 'View on the Scheldt'.

Websites

  • National Gallery of Canada website.

Last updated: 19th February 2021 by Margaret