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

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M.0660
Sketch design for decoration of passage of 96 Cheyne Walk

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1877/1878
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: charcoal
Support: brown wove paper
Size: ca 6 3/4 x 11" (171 x 279 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Sketch design for decoration of passage of 96 Cheyne Walk

Sketch design for decoration of passage of 96 Cheyne Walk dates from 1877/1878.

Whistler lived at 2 Lindsey Row (96 Cheyne Walk), from 1867-1878. Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913) remembered that about 1877/1878 'the passage from the door was panelled, and had, I think, a painting of ships on the wall' which he described as yachts rather than fully rigged ships. 1

Sketch design for decoration of passage of 96 Cheyne Walk, Private Collection
Sketch design for decoration of passage of 96 Cheyne Walk, Private Collection

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 660).

Notes:

1: Way 1912 [more] , p. 10, repr. f.p. 10 as 'Sketch Design for Decoration of Passage of 96 Cheyne Walk'.

Last updated: 13th February 2021 by Margaret