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

 

M.1142
Silver and Blue: Southampton

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1887
Collection: State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
Accession Number: ОP-42164
Medium: watercolour
Support: white paper tipped down on card
Size: 4 15/16 x 8 3/8" (125 x 212 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'Naval review. Southampton. Blue and Silver'

Silver and Blue: Southampton

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1142) as 'Silver and Blue: Southampton'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Probably III. Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung, Königlicher Glaspalast, Munich, 1888 (cat. no. 32) as 'Blau und Silber: Southampton'.
  • Probably “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 21) as 'Silver and Blue – Southampton'.
  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 94) as 'Blue and Silver'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Andreeva, Galina, and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Russia, State Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow, 2006 (cat. no. 111).

Websites

  • Hermitage Museum website at https://www.hermitagemuseum.org.

Last updated: 2nd April 2021 by Margaret