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

 

M.0875
Blue and Silver: The Thames

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1882
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: watercolour
Support: white paper
Size: 9 1/2 x 12 1/4" (241 x 311 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'J. A. McNei1l Whistler 1882 from my window. E. W. Godwin.' by E. W. Godwin, and in another hand, 'This was his first attempt at watercolour.'

Blue and Silver: The Thames

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 875) as 'Blue and Silver: The Thames'.

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. 108) as 'The Thames – Blue and Silver'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • MacDonald, Margaret, and Patricia de Montfort, An American in London: Whistler and the Thames, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Addison Gallery of American Art, Freer Gallery of Art, 2013-2014 (cat. no. 49, repr.).

Last updated: 19th February 2021 by Margaret