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

 

M.0938
Grey Mist at Sea

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1883/1884
Collection: Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Accession Number: 1930P335
Medium: watercolour and body colour
Support: white wove paper laid down on card
Size: 5 9/16 x 9 7/8" (143 x 240 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: '335', '30', and 'No. 6'

Grey Mist at Sea

Provenance

  • 1884: bought from Dowdeswell's by the American consul in Birmingham, Wilson King (1846-1930) ;
  • 1930: given by his daughter, Rachel Estelle Albright King, Mrs A. S. Giles (1891-1966), in memory of her father, to Birmingham City Art Gallery.

Exhibitions

  • 1884: possibly 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 22) as 'Grey Mist at Sea'.

Last updated: 18th February 2021 by Margaret