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

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M.0271
r.: Succès d'Erneste à Cologne; v.: Tracing of recto

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1858
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1898.154
Medium: pencil
Support: off-white wove paper
Size: 3 7/8" x 5 15/16" (98 x 150 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'Succès d'Erneste à Cologne.'

r.: Succès d'Erneste à Cologne; v.: Tracing of recto

r.: Succès d'Erneste à Cologne; v.: Tracing of recto date from between August and October 1858.

r.: Succès d'Erneste à Cologne, Freer Gallery of Art
r.: Succès d'Erneste à Cologne, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Tracing of recto, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Tracing of recto, Freer Gallery of Art

The drawing is the basis for the etching The Title Page for 'Douze Eaux Fortes d'après Nature' [22], which was dedicated to Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910) and printed by Auguste Delâtre (1822-1907) in November 1858.

The work is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 271).

Last updated: 14th December 2019 by Margaret