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

 

M.0980
Blue and silver - Holland

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885/1886
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: watercolour
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown

Blue and silver - Holland

Provenance

Its history after 1889 is unknown.

Exhibitions

  • 1886: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 14) as 'Blue and silver – Holland'.
  • 1889: “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 23) as 'Blue and silver – Holland'.

The New York Times on 3 March 1889 described it as 'charming, slight as it is.' 1 This does not help in identifying it. It was priced at 25 guineas, but remained unsold, and was returned after the exhibition by Wunderlich's on the SS Servia. 2

Notes:

1: Anon., 'Etchings, Drawings, Pastels', New York Times, New York, 3 March 1889, p. 5.

2: G. Dieterlen, H. Wunderlich & Co., to Whistler, 1 November 1889, GUW #07187.

Last updated: 2nd April 2021 by Margaret