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

 

M.0286
Sketches of the journey to Alsace

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1858
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen and ink
Support: paper, letter
Size: unknown (photographs 8 x 10 3/8" (205 x 264 mm), and 8 1/8 x 5 3/4" (208 x 147 mm)
Signature: unknown
Inscription: excerpt from a letter, starting 'how we then set off, with nothing but a blouse on our backs -'

Sketches of the journey to Alsace

Sketches of the journey to Alsace probably date from October 1858, and were drawn in a letter sent to Whistler's half-sister Deborah Delano Haden (1825-1908) . The letter was started en route from Aix la Chapelle and completed and sent from Paris. 1

Sketches of the journey to Alsace, photograph, Library of Congress
Sketches of the journey to Alsace, photograph, Library of Congress

Fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 286).

Notes:

1: GUW #01912.

Last updated: 8th March 2021 by Margaret