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

 

M.0968
r.: Gold and Brown: Dordrecht; v.: Dordrecht

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 67.55.150
Medium: watercolour
Support: off-white wove paper, originally laid down on both sides of card
Size: 4 7/8 x 8 3/8" (125 x 214 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'No34y.' and '67.55.150' in unknown hands

r.: Gold and Brown: Dordrecht; v.: Dordrecht

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 968) as 'r.: Gold and Brown: Dordrecht; v.: Dordrecht'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 34) as 'Gold and Brown: Dordrecht'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • New York Herald, New York, 2 March 1889.

Books on Whistler

  • Heijbroek, J. F., and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Holland, Zwolle and Amsterdam, 1997, pl. x..

Websites

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art website at https://www.metmuseum.org.

Last updated: 19th February 2021 by Margaret