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

 

M.1586
Chelsea Rags

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, CA
Accession Number: 1975.1
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 225 x 298 mm (8 7/8 x 11 3/4")
Signature: unsigned
Inscription: v.: 'Old Clothes Shop / Pen sketch by J. McNeill Whistler / (from the Collection of the artist’s Executrix)', written by Harold Wright of Colnaghi’s

Chelsea Rags

Composition

This is the same subject as Rag Shop, Milman's Row, Chelsea [329] and Chelsea Rags c026 but is not a study for them.

Technique

Chelsea Rags, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University.
Chelsea Rags, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University.

The technique is atypical of Whistler, with short, scratchy, rather uncertain lines and cross-hatching.

Last updated: 7th March 2021 by Margaret