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

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M.0176
Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1854/1855
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: watercolour
Support: paper laid down on card
Size: 20 1/8" x 28 5/8" (511 x 727 mm)
Signature: 'Whistler'
Inscription: none

Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water'

Whistler's Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water' dates from late 1854 or early 1855.

Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water', private collection
Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water', private collection

For more information on this work, see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 3).

It was originally assumed to be an oil painting, and so is also catalogued in YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 5) as 'copy after Turner'.

Last updated: 26th February 2021 by Margaret