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

 

M.1004
Red and brown - Hoxton

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885/1886
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1904.79a-b
Medium: watercolour
Support: cream paper, laid down on card
Size: 4 15/16 x 8 1/8" (126 x 207 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: '04.79A/ No 33' and (illegibly) 'Stair landing', in various hands

Red and brown - Hoxton

Site

Red and brown – Hoxton, Freer Gallery of Art
Red and brown – Hoxton, Freer Gallery of Art

Hoxton, in Shoreditch, a square in the east end of London. At one time this was wrongly thought to be 'Onstead' or Oxted, a village in Surrey. Whistler identified it as 'little Hoxton' for John James Cowan (1846-1936) . 1

Notes:

1: Whistler to Cowan, [25/30 October 1901], GUW #00751.

Last updated: 20th February 2021 by Margaret