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

 

M.0874
Putney Bridge

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1882
Collection: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, KS
Accession Number: F63-46
Medium: watercolour
Support: white wove paper
Size: 6 15/16 x 9 15/16" (176 x 252 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: "Ernest Brown of London says of this watercolor 'As fine as it could possibly be, done in Whistler's very best period, 1884.' ", possibly written by H. H. Benedict, and in unknown hands, ' J2913' and 'TEE/-/- 1 Noxneo'

Putney Bridge

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 874) as 'Putney Bridge'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

EXHIBITION:

  • 1904: Etchings, Dry-Points, and a Few Drawings by Whistler, Frederick Keppel & Co., New York, 1904 (cat. no. 107) as 'Putney Bridge'.

SALE:

  • Christie's, London, 23 November 1903 (lot 141).

Journals 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'Sales', Art Journal, 1904, pp. 31-33, at p. 31.

Last updated: 2nd June 2021 by Margaret