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

 

Wapping


                Wapping, Library of Congress
Wapping, Library of Congress

Wapping was drawn in a letter to Ignace-Henri-Jean-Théodore Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) in the first half of 1861. 1 It is an early sketch of the oil painting Wapping [YMSM 035], which was started in 1860 and completed in 1864.

For more information, see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 299).

Notes:

1: [January/June 1861], GUW #08042.

Last updated: 6th December 2020 by Margaret