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

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M.0575
Study for 'Shipbuilder's Yard' (G.142)

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1875
Collection: British Museum, London
Accession Number: 1958-2-8-15
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper, laid down on paper
Size: 5 7/8 x 3 11/16" (150 x 94 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Study for 'Shipbuilder's Yard' (G.142)

Composition

Study for 'Shipbuilder's Yard' (G.142), British Museum, London
Study for 'Shipbuilder's Yard' (G.142), British Museum, London
Shipbuilder's Yard, Liverpool, drypoint (G.142 II), Colby College Museum
Shipbuilder's Yard, Liverpool, drypoint (G.142 II), Colby College Museum

This is a study for the drypoint Shipbuilder's Yard, Liverpool [142]. The image is reversed in printing.

Conservation History

The sketch was placed in an album.

Last updated: 23rd February 2021 by Margaret