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

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M.0142
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Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1853/1854
Collection: St Louis Art Museum, MO.
Accession Number: 1:1923
Medium: gouache and watercolour
Support: dark brown paper
Size: 11 13/16 x 15 9/16" (300 x 395 mm)
Signature: 'J.Whistler.'
Inscription: 'Presented to Cadet A.K. Leigh by his affectionate room-mate Cadet James A. Whistler.'

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Provenance

See further history in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 142).

Last updated: 3rd January 2019 by Margaret