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

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M.0700
Old Battersea Bridge

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1878
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: chalk
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 6 13/16 x 10 9/16' (173 x 268 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Old Battersea Bridge

Composition

Old Battersea Bridge, Private Collection
Old Battersea Bridge, Private Collection
The Broad Bridge, from Picadilly, The Art Institute, Chicago (1917.543)
The Broad Bridge, from Picadilly, The Art Institute, Chicago (1917.543)

This is a study for the lithograph The Broad Bridge c011.

Technique

The lithographer, Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913) said when Whistler was asked to draw two lithographs for the new magazine Piccadilly in 1878,

"he forthwith made two studies of Old Battersea Bridge on brown paper, and brought them to the Wellington Street office, and there and then drew them on a fresh stone. `The long Bridge' and `The Tall Bridge' were at once printed". 1

Notes:

1: Way 1912 [more] , p. 19.

Last updated: 11th February 2021 by Margaret