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

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M.0305
The Morning before the Massacre of St Bartholomew

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1862
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen and ink, pencil and wash
Support: unknown
Size: unknown (wood engraving 152 x 102 mm, 6 x 4")
Signature: 'Whistler'
Inscription: none

The Morning before the Massacre of St Bartholomew

Provenance

  • 1862: the drawing was engraved by Joseph Swain and published in Once a Week, London, on 17 August.

There is no further record of it.

Exhibitions

The drawing was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 11th March 2021 by Margaret