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

 

M.1507
Admiral Nelson -'Boarded at last!'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1897
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 2006685410
Medium: pencil
Support: beige laid paper, black mourning edges, watermark 'B' in a shield, f.s.
Size: 8 13/16 x 6 15/16" (224 x 177 mm)
Signature: butterfly added for publication
Inscription: letter from Whistler to E. R. & J. Pennell; '8-89-806.44/ C.E.274.' in unknown hand; v.: 'June 97' in unknown hand

Admiral Nelson -'Boarded at last!'

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1507) as "Admiral Nelson -'Boarded at last!' ".

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Daily Chronicle, London, 18 June 1897, repr. as 'Mr Whistler on the Jubilee Stands'.

Books on Whistler

  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, repr. f. p. 15 as 'Nelson Boarded at Last'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • The Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1921 (cat. no. 274).

Websites

  • Library of Congress website at https://www.loc.gov.

Last updated: 6th March 2021 by Margaret