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

 

M.0960
Sketch of 'Harmony in Brown and Gold: Old Chelsea Church'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: Rosenwald Collection, Rare Books Division
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: cream laid paper with partial watermark, crown over '...n & Gunn / [B]ond Street'
Size: 3 15/16 x 6 1/8" (100 x 156 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: text of letter including "Mr Flower has been here this morning and after fixing upon 'The Sweet Shop', 'The Sun Cloud', and the little Chelsea Embankment - I have forgotten the exact name - but you know the one I mean'

Sketch of 'Harmony in Brown and Gold: Old Chelsea Church'

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 960) as "Sketch of 'Harmony in Brown and Gold: Old Chelsea Church' ".
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oil, cat. no. 305).

Websites

  • The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. Online edition, University of Glasgow, 2003-2004. GUW #08613.

Last updated: 16th February 2021 by Margaret