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

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The assassination of the Duke of Buckingham

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1853
Collection: Thomas Colville Fine Art
Accession Number: none
Medium: pencil, watercolour
Support: paper
Size: 8 3/4 x 5 3/4" (mm)
Signature: r.: 'J Whistler -'
Inscription: r.: 'Club Sketch', by Whistler; v.: on labels, in an unknown hand, 'Whistler/ Sketch Club/ West Point/ painted by Whistler during/ his year at West Point/ Academy' and, '& given to his friend/ & classmate/ Alex. S. Webb -' the latter written on an Arthur H. Hahlo & Co. label.

The assassination of the Duke of Buckingham

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, pp. 308, 311-12.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Doyle’s sale of European, American, Modern & Contemporary Art, New York, 8 May 2013 (lot 253) as ‘A Confrontation’.

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