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

 

M.0967
View on the Scheldt

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884/1885
Collection: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Accession Number: No. 6570
Medium: watercolour
Support: off-white paper
Size: 4 7/8 x 8 7/16" (124 x 214 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'View (on the Scheldt?) Holland / by Whistler / (From the Collection of Miss R. Birnie Philip) Whistler's Executrix / A21132).' by Harold Wright

View on the Scheldt

Provenance

  • 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
  • 1955: sold by Miss Birnie Philip to Colnaghi's, London dealers;
  • 1955: bought by the National Gallery of Canada.

Exhibitions

  • 1886: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 32) as 'Grey and silver – The Scheldt'.

Last updated: 19th February 2021 by Margaret