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

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M.0074
The Light at the Door

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1849/1851
Collection: Whereabouts unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: watercolour, ink and pencil
Support: paper
Size: 3 3/4 x 2 3/8" (95 x 60 mm)
Signature: 'JAW'
Inscription: 'The [sunlight?] was shining [illegible words] light was [splendidly] reflected by the windows of the palace of the Doges of Venice' [in unknown hand]

The Light at the Door

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 74) as 'The Light at the Door'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 169) as 'Sketch'.

Books on Whistler

  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 27-28 as 'The Light at the Doot'.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Pressly, Nancy D., 'Whistler in America: An Album of Early Drawings', Metropolitan Museum Journal, New York, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 125-54, at p. 151 (no, 42) as 'Light at the Door'.

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