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

 

M.0591
Designs for plates

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876
Collection: British Museum, London
Accession Number: 1958-2-8-16
Medium: pencil
Support: off-white laid paper, one design cut out and replaced with another; laid down on paper
Size: 3 13/16 x 9 1/16-9 1/8" (97 x 230/2 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Designs for plates

Composition

Designs for plates, British Museum
Designs for plates, British Museum
The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art
The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art
Nocturne: Blue and Gold - Old Battersea Bridge, Tate Britain
Nocturne: Blue and Gold - Old Battersea Bridge, Tate Britain

One design includes figures similar to those in The White Symphony: Three Girls [YMSM 087], and another is like Nocturne: Blue and Gold - Old Battersea Bridge [YMSM 140].

Last updated: 23rd February 2021 by Margaret