Two sketches dates from 1878 or 1879. It was drawn on lithographic transfer paper similar to Whistler's first (and unsuccessful) transfer lithograph, Old Battersea Bridge, No. 2 c013. The printer Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913) at first dated the latter as 1878 but later claimed that Whistler's early transfer lithographs all dated from 1879. 1

Two sketches, Collection of Laurence N. Stranger

The drawings are catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 677), but had not been located at that time. This entry has been revised and corrected.