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

 

Flesh-colour and green - Battledore and Shuttlecock

Description

A newspaper critic (in The Bat, 4 May 1886, p. 123) described it: 'a picture of a child's garden party called Batteldore and Shuttlecock, which reveals more than could every fleck of every feather be counted in the tips of the toys.'

Site

The unusual title suggests that this showed a game of shuttlecock, probably set in a garden setting.

Last updated: 20th February 2021 by Margaret