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

 

M.1128
Paintings hung at the Royal Society of British Artists

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1887
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 1943-3-8814
Medium: pencil
Support: cream laid paper with watermark of plumed helmet on a shield over 's&h' on a scroll
Size: 8 x 5" (202 x 125 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Paintings hung at the Royal Society of British Artists

Provenance

  • 1917: probably bought from Messrs Dowdeswell by Colnaghi's, London art dealers, 3 April;
  • 1919: sold by Colnaghi's to Daniel H. Farr (d. 1976), Philadelphia dealer, 20 June.
  • 1930: probably bought from Charles Sessler (1854-1935) , Philadelphia dealer, by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) on 17 July 1930;
  • 1943: given to the National Gallery of Art, but housed at Alverthorpe until 1980.

Further detail is given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1127-28).

Exhibitions

The drawing was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 21st February 2021 by Margaret