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

 

M.0860
Nocturne: Chelsea

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1881
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46087
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper
Size: 4 1/2 x 4 3/4" (115 x 120 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Nocturne: Chelsea

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Nocturne: Chelsea, The Hunterian
Nocturne: Chelsea, The Hunterian

A public house (tavern) in Chelsea, London. It was drawn from memory, according to Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), who himself made a memory sketch of the oil painting that Whistler developed from the drawing. 1

Notes:

1: Way 1912 [more] , pp. 67-68, repr. f.p. 68.

Last updated: 7th December 2020 by Margaret