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

 

M.1046
r.: Grey note - Mouth of the Thames; v.: Caricature of a man in a cocked hat

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885
Collection: Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Accession Number: 23.251
Medium: r.: watercolour and opaque watercolour; v.: graphite pencil
Support: r.: brown wove paper; v.: cream paper, laid down on card
Size: 5 x 8 7/16" (127 x 215 mm)
Signature: r.: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'Grey note – Mouth of Thames', and, in another hand, 'by J. McNeill Whistler/ owner Walter Gay/ 73 rue Amère [illegible]'

r.: Grey note - Mouth of the Thames; v.: Caricature of a man in a cocked hat

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1046) as 'r.: Grey note - Mouth of the Thames; v.: Caricature of a man in a cocked hat'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 140) as 'Grey Note – Mouth of the Thames'.
  • 100th Anniversary Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1905 (cat. no. 443) as 'Gray Note: The Mouth of the Thames'.

Websites

  • Museum of Fine Arts,, Boston, website.

Last updated: 7th June 2021 by Margaret